Cultural foundations of learning : East and West /

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Author / Creator:Li, Jin, 1957-
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11830057
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ISBN:9781139336505
1139336509
9781139028400
1139028405
9780521768290
0521768292
9780521160629
0521160626
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"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"--
Other form:Print version: Li, Jin, 1957- Cultural foundations of learning. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521768290