Papers by Chao-Ling Tseng
Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia
Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education, 2015
Young Children's Living and Learning Experiences under the Biliterate and Trilingual Education Policy in Hong Kong
Global Studies of Childhood, 2013
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
The popularity and desirability of English language education has become somewhat unbeatable in T... more The popularity and desirability of English language education has become somewhat unbeatable in Taiwan. This article seeks to understand the multiple threads of reasoning systems that come together to constitute and sustain the desirability of English learning. It conceptualizes that language education is more than teaching and learning a new/foreign language. Language is intertwined with the sphere of culture. Thus, it is hoped to encourage an alternative perspective for rethinking English language education in Taiwan.
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This paper discusses the cultural conflicts around the Western notion of child-centeredness in Ta... more This paper discusses the cultural conflicts around the Western notion of child-centeredness in Taiwanese preschools. The implementation and translation of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) in Taiwan is highlighted as an example to understand productions of differences, norms and cultural conflicts in Taiwanese early childhood education. Throughout this paper, it is argued that multiplicities and differences are not acknowledged but instead are dangerously ignored while assumptions are made about a singular norm and homogeneous universal standard. From this perspective, it is asserted that the global circulation of a particular Western notion of child-centeredness should be (re)conceptualized as a cultural construct through which a particular system of reasoning or cultural knowledge is perpetuated.
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