Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West

by Jin Li

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521160626
• ISBN13: 9780521160629
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"