ABSTRACT
Gopinathan and Ho (2003) have highlighted the impact of national culture on instructional practices, classroom management and teachers in educational systems. They also point to the interaction of cultures between East and West in the context of teaching and learning:
it is often asked whether it is worthwhile for a country to try borrowing educational practices from another country. At the same time, given the internationalization of information, there has been much borrowing of ideas by countries in the Asia-Pacific region from the centres of learning in the West.
