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Comprehension Content Question Pair Work
1. They were studying arts education in Chinese kindergartens and elementary
schools in Nanjing.
2. Their 18-month-old son Benjamin was fond of trying to place the key into
the slot of the key box during their stay at the Jinling Hotel.
3. They would come over to watch Benjamin and then try to teach him how to
do it properly.
4. Because he realized that this anecdote was directly relevant to their assigned
tasks in China: to investigate early childhood education and to throw light on Chinese attitudes toward creativity.
5. Most of them displayed the same attitude as the staff at the Jinling Hotel. 6. He emphasized that the most important thing is to teach the child that on
can solve a problem effectively by oneself.
7. He means that this incident pointed to important differences in educational
and artistic practices between China and the USA.
8. The manner in which the Chinese staff saw the need to teach the child by
guiding his hand in the characteristic of a broader attitude to education, one that stands in contrast to the Western preference for leaving the child to explore and learn unaided.
9. One example is of children at the age of 5 or 6 painting flowers, fish and
animals skillfully and confidently; in a second example, calligraphers 9 and 10 years old were producing works; and in a third, young artists work on perfecting their craft for several hours a day.
10. Americans think that unless creativity has been acquired early, it may never
emerge, and skills can be picked up later. Chinese think that if skills are not acquired early, they may never be acquired, and there is no hurry to promote creativity.
11. This is mainly due to the difference in their way of thinking.
12. The author makes the suggestion that we should strike a better balance
between the poles of creativity and basic skills.
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发表于 2016-10-27 18:52:56