Directive Approach to Telephone Counseling in the People’s Republic of China

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihong Gao

In the People’s Republic of China, telephone psychological counseling is a new phenomenon that appeared in the late 1980s, following a social transition toward a market economy. Such counseling by paraprofessionals often adopts a directive style in that the counselor gives direct advice pertaining to what the client should do on a particular issue. After a brief description of its features, this article examines factors of cultural traditions and transitions underlying the directive counseling and the interactive relationship between counseling and culture. Analysis is made regarding traditional and transitional values, social networks, and personality types. It is further argued that research and training in cross-cultural counseling should go beyond static cultural relativism and adopt an emic view of cultural change.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Iofis ◽  
Qiu Xiaona

Thearticle is devoted to the problem of mastering by students from the People’s Republic of China the classical harmony as the basic section of the most important musical­theoretical discipline. It identifies the causes of difficulties appearing in this process. They are related to the peculiarities of the interpretation of the category “harmony” in Chinese musicology. Due to the civilizational features reflected in the language and cultural traditions of China, the aesthetic meaning of this concept is considered in isolation from the technological and educational­academic, which are of priority importance. In the civilizational aspect, classical harmony is a product of the European worldview and is inseparable from the professional composer creativity of the European tradition (“opus music”). The cultural and typological features of the latter are far from the traditional musical culture of China, and in many ways even opposed to it. The priority of the individual principle, the high level of creative freedom combined with personal responsibility for the result, and the connection with the institution of the Christian church are little understood by Chinese students. Difficulties in the development by students of the PRC of classical harmony are caused not only by the specifics of the tonal type mode, European forms of multi voiced texture and chord thinking, but also by the inextricably linked three­dimensionality of the artistic space and the special function of the melody in the artistic whole. In the intonational aspect, classical harmony for students of the PRC is an element of the content of music education, not directly related to the past, present, or future of the native national culture. The study of classical harmony is necessary for Chinese students to understand the Western musical tradition as a manifestation of a different ethnotype of intonation in the context of self­realization of the peoples inhabiting a great country in the modern world cultural space of the era of globalization.


Author(s):  
С. Т. Золотухіна ◽  
О. М. Іонова ◽  
С. Є. Лупаренко

The relevance of the study is predetermined by insufficient development of the problem of schoolchildren’s music education in general secondary education institutions in the People’s Republic of China and the significance of the use of educationally valuable Chinese experience in music education in Ukrainian educational practice. The aim of the study is to reveal the tendencies and prospects for schoolchildren’s music education in general secondary education institutions in the People’s Republic of China. Various methods have been used to carry out this research, namely: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, systematization, generalization, comparison, classification), historical, empirical and prognostic methods. The general tendencies of development of music education in general secondary education institutions in the People’s Republic of China in historical, content and organizational-methodical aspects have been revealed. The general trends of development of music education in general secondary education institutions in Ukraine and the People’s Republic of China have been determined. They are the progressiveness of the general strategy of music education, its focus on the development of spirituality of the nation, democratization of educational process, openness to the world and European experience, constant modernization of the content of education, forms and methods of mastering it, improvement of the conditions of educational process, increased attention to Music teachers’ professional training. The prospects for development of schoolchildren’s music education in general secondary education institutions in the People’s Republic of China have been specified. They are the intensification of scientific research and intensifying the implementation of innovations into the practice of music education, the creation of a national concept of general music education taking into consideration the progressive world experience and national cultural traditions, development of curricula of general secondary music education taking into account the specificity and opportunities in the region, the combination of tradition and innovation in music pedagogy. The directions of the use of Chinese experience in modern schools in Ukraine have been determined. They are the development of a concept of schoolchildren’s music education taking into account the realities and prospects for the development of national education, universal and national cultural traditions, children’s assimilation of the most important values by means of musical art, providing pedagogically appropriate organization and improving the conditions of children’s music education, increasing the requirements for Music teachers’ professionalism


Author(s):  
Fredy González

This chapter illustrates the profound changes that affected the Chinese Mexican community after Mexico established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Chinese Mexican political associations abruptly closed, while second- and subsequent generation Chinese Mexicans founded their own cultural associations. At the same time, new Chinese immigrants arrived from the mainland, speaking a different language and holding different cultural traditions. The different waves of Chinese Mexicans present a challenge to community unity. Finally, some Chinese Mexicans have slowly come to embrace the People’s Republic of China, making claims to belonging in mainland China while at the same time proudly declaring that their roots are now in Mexico.


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