Cultural foundations of learning : East and West /

"Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Li, Jin, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Learning, Psychology of. Learning > Cross-cultural studies. Learning > Western countries. Learning > East Asia. PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General. Lernen. Lernpsychologie. Ostasien. Westliche Welt.
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Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Faust and the 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 processes; 5. Curiosity begets inquiry and heart begets dedication; 6. Nerd's hell and nerd's haven; 7. Socratic and Confucian tutors at home; 8. Devil's advocate and the reluctant speaker; 9. Implications for the changing landscape of learning.