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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large intellectual traditions, Li details how each model manifests itself in the psychology of the learning process, learning affect, regard of one's learning peers, expression of what one knows and parents' guiding efforts. Despite today's accelerated cultural exchange, these learning models do not diminish but endure"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139336505 1139336509 9781139028400 1139028405 1107225205 9781107225206 1139334018 9781139334013 1280393505 9781280393501 1139337378 9781139337373 9786613571427 6613571423 1139339826 9781139339827 1139341405 9781139341400 1139338242 9781139338240 |