@article{discovery10089332,
           title = {Constructing Chinese didactics: (Re)discovering the German didactics tradition},
           pages = {108--128},
         journal = {Jahrbuch f{\"u}r Allgemeine Didaktik (JfAD - Yearbook for General Didactics)},
          volume = {2012},
            year = {2012},
            note = {This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
        keywords = {The German didactics tradition, Didactics, theory of instruction, China},
          author = {Deng, Z},
             url = {http://www.paedagogik.de/index.php?m=wd&wid=2311},
        abstract = {The article traces the influence of the German didactics tradition on the development of didactics in China from a
historical perspective and by analyzing the ways of constructing Chinese didactics in three contemporary
didactics texts. It compares and contrasts the German didactics tradition with Kairov's didactics and American
theory of instruction-two "didactics" traditions that have significantly determined and shaped how didactics is
conceived and developed in China. The article argues for a (re)discovery of the German didactics tradition, and
discusses the implications for constructing Chinese didactics within the current social, cultural, and educational
context of schooling in China. It addresses how Chinese didactics can be constructed in a more thoughtful and
better informed manner, in a way that embodies real Chinese characteristics.}
}