A Report On The Translation Of Whole Person Learning

The impact of globalization is seen everywhere,and its effect involves all aspects of our modern lives.It can be seen in the erosion of hierarchy,changing patterns of thinking and changing expectations of life.Such increasing complexity adds up to the need for new thoughts of learning.“Holistic Education”,originated from the arising of American educational criticism in the 1960 s and 1970 s,is a new educational idea,which takes “person” as the research subject and stresses that it is necessary to respect the development of individual personality.Under the influence of this idea,Whole Person Learning(WPL)was written by Bryce Taylor(2010),which is a manual offering a promising thought and approach to the subject.Although WPL or holistic education may not have a wide circulation as a concept by this name,its principles are similar to the Chinese Education Ministry’s intent in developing the framework for Essential-qualities-oriented(EQO)Education.By reading this manual,learners can deepen their understanding for the EQO concept and implement it better.In addition,this handbook also brings some referenced significance for people’s personal learning,teachers’ teaching,or schools and other educational institutions in working out teaching plans and managements to complement.The present work begins with the background,the purpose and significance of the report;then the features of the text are described,followed by description of the target readers,the translation process;and finally it is the analysis of the problems encountered in the translation process and the translation strategies adopted to solve them.There are a great number of abbreviations,vocabulary,nominalized expressions,simple sentences,complex sentences and passive sentences in the text.The communicative translation theory is employed to convey the message of the original in a form which conforms to the linguistic,cultural and pragmatic conventions of target language by adopting several techniques of translation such as division,recasting,conversion,annotation,amplification and omission.