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Direct linkLi, 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
Download full textElkind, David – 1998
This paper asserts that any intellectually responsible program to instruct young children in math, science, and technology must overcome at least three seemingly insurmountable obstacles: (1) adults' inability to discover, either by reflection or analysis, the means by which children acquire science and technology concepts; (2) the fact that young…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Learning Motivation
