Cultural foundations of learning : East and west

"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 o...

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Main Author: Li, Jin
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Learning, Psychology of.
Learning
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