CityU Education Forum 10: Professor Guo Shibao from University of Calgary Deeply Analyzed the Chinese Education under the Globalization Background
Release date:2017/05/31
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On May 20, 2017, Professor Guo Shibao, the professor of Werlund School of Education of University of Calgary, as well as the member of Executive Committee of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), was invited to be the guest speaker of the 10th Education Forum, which was organized by the FED of City University of Macau. Professor Guo shared his new book, Spotlight on China: Chinese Education in the Globalized World, and talked a lot about his research experience within the past a few years.

 

In the beginning of the lecture, Professor Guo first raised two questions for students: what is the internationalization? and what is globalization? Based on the analysis of the similarity and difference of the two concepts, Prof. Guo indicated that globalization leads to internationalization and further stimulates the development of education internationalization. Then, focusing on the issue of China's higher education, Prof. Guo shared the development strategies of the globalization of higher education and the implemented three stages, to explain the chronological characteristic and regional characteristic about student mobility between them. Prof. Guo pointed that although the number of students return to China is increased, the ratio is still not very high. China still faces the problem of "Brain drain". Moreover, Prof. Guo discussed the challenges and problems about the intercultural adaption under the analysis of different cases from the US, Australia, China, etc., and introduced a new concept, "Brain Circulation", on the basis of the traditional concepts of "Brain drain" and "Brain gain". At last, Prof. Guo took the Canadians working in Beijing as the example and shared an investigation he did in recent years. According to four principle questions "who came back?", "Why come back?", "What are these returning students doing?" and "What social relations do they have in China?", Prof. Guo proclaimed a new sociological item, "Double Diaspora", and further discussed the relationship between home and homeland.

 

In the final Q&A session, Prof. Guo with his wife, Prof. Guo Yan, had a deep and heated discussion with graduate students on several related topics, such as cross-cultural integration, dual identity, immigrant children and value creation. Prof. Guo Yan particularly shared a survey of Chinese high school students in Canada, which indicated that under the impact and influence in different cultural, those Chinese students are re-interested in Chinese cultural. They are started to reading Chinese traditional books such as Tao Te Ching. Those students rebuild their cognition about Chinese cultural under the cross-cultural environment.




 
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