The Cultural Transition : Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan.

Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfillment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Merry I.
Otros Autores: Pollak, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Routledge Library Editions.
Temas:
Social change > Cross-cultural studies.
Social role > Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
Educational anthropology.
Rôle social > Études transculturelles.
Ethnopsychologie.
Anthropologie et éducation.
ethnopsychology.
Educational anthropology
Ethnopsychology
Social change
Social role
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfillment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan, the Confucian-style bonding between generations in Chinese society and the authority of the traditional teacher with the modern Quaranic School. They study phenomena as diverse as the effect of Christian and Islamic influence on the native cultures of Africa, and the life strategies of Japanese bu.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780203843949
0203843940

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