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      • Jin Li, Brown University, Rhode Island
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      26 March 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139028400
      9780521768290
      9780521160629
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139028400
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Educational Psychology
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    Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Educational Psychology
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    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.

    Reviews

    "Li (Brown Univ.) compares learning processes and goals of an East Asian learning model with a Western learning model.... provides an interesting comparative analysis of Socratic and Confucian tutors at home during the first years of life.... Recommended..."
    --D.L. Stoloff, Eastern Connecticut State University, Choice

    "...Li’s book is worth reading because it provides a perspective rarely found in tomes on East–West differences."
    --Dr. Jean Lau Chin, Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University PsycCRITIQUES

    "...Masterful.... Li's volume is an extraordinary accomplishment. It is an erudite, well documented, clearly argued and original articulation of Western and Eastern approaches to learning. Li treats her topic seriously, providing the depth of analysis necessary to dispel the simple stereotypes that have long plagued East-West cultural comparisons..."
    --Michael F. Mascolo, Department of Psychology, Merrimack College, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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