SoTL at Cultural Interfaces:Exploring Nuance in Learning Designs at a Chinese University

• Main Author: Carmel McNaught
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Southern University 2012-07-01
• Series: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Chinese culture; Engagement with cognitive challenge; ‘Face’; Risk-taking; Innovation timelines
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol6/iss2/3

This essay contains my reflections of working in a number of teaching and learning projects in the last decade at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our research confirms that the principles that inform scholarly teaching and learning, that are generally considered universal, also apply in a Hong Kong Chinese context. However, the implementation of those principles is subtly different. It is the nuance in the details about how these principles are enacted in practice that I will explore by considering how the concept of ‘face’ plays out in designing for learning and looking for evidence that such designs are effective.