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Grove, Cornelius N. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020
What is the explanation for American students' comparatively mediocre academic performance? "A Mirror for Americans" finds part of it in how they are taught in primary schools. Comparisons with East Asian teaching are supplied by 50 years of research findings. Grove asks not that we copy East Asian teaching approaches, but that we use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Asians, North Americans
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Zaida, Joseph, Ed.; Hallam, Pamela, Ed.; Whitehouse, John, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2023
This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching democracy, set against the backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to values education and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Democracy, Values Education, Self Concept
Li, Jin – Cambridge University Press, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
Rong, Xue Lan, Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar" knowledge. The chapters in this anthology…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian American Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Achievement
Massie, Michael – 1977
The document analyzes Mao Tse-Tung's "Three Main Rules of Discipline" and "Eight Points For Attention" and presents, by way of comparison, the text of the "Code of Conduct" issued by the President of the United States for members of the armed forces during the Vietnam War. Mao's regulations were revised by the General…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Asian Studies, Behavior Standards, Comparative Analysis
Ovando, Carlos J., Ed.; McLaren, Peter, Ed. – 2000
Essays on political issues in multicultural and bilingual education include: "Cultural Recognition and Civil Discourse in Democracy" (Carlos J. Ovando, Peter McLaren); "The Political Life of Language Metaphors in Writings About Diversity in Education" (Sharon Pugh, Ovando, Nicole Schonemann); "Contesting Whiteness:…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Culture Conflict
Farrell, Thomas S. C., Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2006
The Language Teacher Research Series aims to connect research and practice by highlighting the insights that teachers themselves describe after examining their own practices. This first volume of the five-volume series presents research conducted by language teachers at all levels, from high school English teachers to English language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Researchers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning