Learning by immersing in Chinese culture at SSIS
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The best way to help students understand Chinese culture and local Shanghainese culture is to provide a platform for them to learn and allow students to participate in and experience a variety of cultural activities. By immersing in Chinese culture, students can understand it more profoundly and learn to appreciate and respect it.
SSIS’s Chinese Culture curriculum is unique, systematic and focused. The Chinese Department has edited and published its Chinese Culture textbooks with specific contents for grades K–12. The learning of Chinese language and culture is inseparable.
When students are learning about Chinese Culture — such as classical Chinese poetry, traditional Chinese festivals, opera, Chinese tea, calligraphy, Shanghai streets and shikumen (stone-gate houses) architecture, nursery rhymes, food and 24 solar terms — their Chinese comprehension and literacy ability is likewise improved.
Teachers use traditional Chinese festivals and SSIS’s annual Chinese Culture Week to build a platform for students to experience and demonstrate what they’ve learnt.
These activities include Chinese New Year celebration, Mid-Autumn Festival poems and songs, visiting elderly folks in the nursing homes to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, participating in Shanghai longtang (alleyway) games, immersing in intangible cultural heritage like batik-printing, and visiting Shanghai’s ancient towns. In SSIS, you can experience Chinese culture everywhere.
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