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Informationen zum Autor Cornelius N. Grove has maintained a fascination with the cultural factors that affect children's ability to learn in school since receiving his Ed.D. from Teachers College in 1977. The managing partner of the global business consultancy Grovewell LLC, Cornelius is co-author of Encountering the Chinese (1999, 2010), author of entries on pedagogy across cultures in two encyclopedias (2015; 2017), and author of The Aptitude Myth (2015). Klappentext The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceWhy I Wrote This BookHow I Came to Write This BookReceptive to LearningAcknowledgementsIntroductionAn Overview of How This Book ProceedsThe Plan of This BookAbout This BookChapter 1: Daring to Seek AnswersThe Question, RestatedThe Parts of the ParadoxReviewing Step 1 of the Discovery ProcessChapter 2: Evaluating Eyewitness ReportsQuestioning Eyewitness ReportsPassiveness in ClassRote MemorizingHow Step 2 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 3: Exploring MotivationsThe Agony of DefeatWhy Motivations DifferHow Step 3 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 4: Analyzing DeterminationFrom China to AmericaDeep Meanings of LearningHow Step 4 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 5: Assessing Emotional DriveSelf and FamilyMothers and MotivationSelf, Emotion, and Drive to LearnHow Step 5 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 6: Thinking Like a SociologistLearning in Different SocietiesLearning to Be Competent; Learning in SchoolThe Episode with the KeyHow Step 6 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 7: Thinking Like a HistorianTaming Students in AmericaTaming Students in East AsiaExplaining East Asians' Drive to LearnHow Step 7 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 8: Revealing How Parents ThinkThe Outward Focus of the East Asian FamilyTwo Approaches to Raising ChildrenHow the Chinese Talk about ParentingHow the Japanese Talk about ParentingCheerleaders and CoachesHow Step 8 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 9: Revealing What Parents DoMaintain Very High Expectations...ConsistentlyIntervene to Insure that High Expectations are MetA Revealing Study of Mothers and ChildrenHow Step 9 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 10: So What Should We Do?What Are Our Options?So What Should Families Do?Parenting with G¿an: Seven Commitments to Your ChildChapter 11: Responsibility and CreativityResponsibilityCreativityA Note About the Online Annotated BibliographyConclusionBibliography [standard, non-annotated]Endnotes...
