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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." -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Faust and the birth of a research agenda
• Learning to master the universe and to transform self
• Time past and time present
• Mind-oriented and virtue-oriented learning process
• Curiosity begets inquiry and heart begets dedication
• Nerds' hell and nerds' haven
• Socratic and Confucian tutors at home
• The Devil's advocate and the reluctant speaker
• Implications for the changing landscape of learning.

Author/Creator:

Li, Jin, 1957-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cultural foundations of learning: East and West [by Li, J.]

Subjects:

Learning, Psychology of

Learning — Cross-cultural studies

Learning — Western countries

Learning — East Asia

Learning

Western countries

East Asia

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

LB1060 .L5 2012

ISBNs:

9780521768290 (hardback)
0521768292 (hardback)
9780521160629 (paperback)
0521160626 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011047838

OCLC Numbers:

757931206