Cultural Foundations of Learning - East and West

Informationen zum Autor Dr Jin Li is tenured Associate Professor of Education and Human Development at Brown University. Her research examines different cultural learning models and how such culturally based models shape children's learning beliefs and achievement. She collaborates with researchers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the UK, Germany, Israel and the United States. Dr Li has published in leading journals such as American Psychologist, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Ethos and Cognition and Emotion, among others. Klappentext Describes fundamental differences in learning beliefs between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. Zusammenfassung This book describes fundamental differences in learning beliefs between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning! detailing how children engage in learning! regard their learning peers and express their learning! as well as how parents guide their children. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Faust and birth of a research agenda; 2. Learning to master the universe and learning to transform self; 3. Time past and time present...; 4. Mind-oriented and virtue-oriented learning process; 5. Curiosity begets inquiry and heart begets dedication; 6. Nerds' hell and nerds' haven; 7. Socratic and Confucian tutors at home; 8. Devil's advocate and the reluctant speaker; 9. Implications for the changing landscape of learning.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jin Li, Jin (Brown University Li, Li Jin
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521768290
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76829-0
• Pagine: 400
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia applicata; Cultural Studies, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Educational psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Educational systems and structures