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Informationen zum Autor Cornelius N. Grove is a former classroom teacher, he earned an Ed.D. at Columbia University, then taught Cross-Cultural Problems in Classroom Communication to graduate students there. A charter member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, he is the author of entries on pedagogy across cultures in two encyclopedias as well as two recent books that reveal the cultural values that equip East Asian students to consistently outperform American students on PISA and other international comparative tests. 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Preface Why I Wrote This Book How I Came to Write This Book Receptive to Learning Acknowledgements Introduction An Overview of How This Book Proceeds The Plan of This Book About This Book Chapter 1: Daring to Seek Answers The Question, Restated The Parts of the Paradox Reviewing Step 1 of the Discovery Process Chapter 2: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Questioning Eyewitness Reports Passiveness in Class Rote Memorizing How Step 2 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 3: Exploring Motivations The Agony of Defeat Why Motivations Differ How Step 3 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 4: Analyzing Determination From China to America Deep Meanings of Learning How Step 4 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 5: Assessing Emotional Drive Self and Family Mothers and Motivation Self, Emotion, and Drive to Learn How Step 5 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 6: Thinking Like a Sociologist Learning in Different Societies Learning to Be Competent; Learning in School The Episode with the Key How Step 6 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 7: Thinking Like a Historian Taming Students in America Taming Students in East Asia Explaining East Asians' Drive to Learn How Step 7 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 8: Revealing How Parents Think The Outward Focus of the East Asian Family Two Approaches to Raising Children How the Chinese Talk about Parenting How the Japanese Talk about Parenting Cheerleaders and Coaches How Step 8 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 9: Revealing What Parents Do Maintain Very High Expectations.Consistently Intervene to Insure that High Expectations are Met A Revealing Study of Mothers and Children How Step 9 Advanced Our Discovery Process Chapter 10: So What Should We Do? What Are Our Options? So What Should Families Do? Parenting with Guan: Seven Commitments to Your Child Chapter 11: Responsibility and Creativity Responsibility Creativity A Note About the Online Annotated Bibliography Conclusion Bibliography [standard, non-annotated] Endnotes ...
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Cornelius N. Grove is a former classroom teacher, he earned an Ed.D. at Columbia University, then taught Cross-Cultural Problems in Classroom Communication to graduate students there. A charter member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, he is the author of entries on pedagogy across cultures in two encyclopedias as well as two recent books that reveal the cultural values that equip East Asian students to consistently outperform American students on PISA and other international comparative tests.
