Cultural Foundations of Leaing: East and West

by: Jin Li

ISBN-10: 0521160626

ISBN-13: 9780521160629

Edition: 1

Publication date: March 26, 2012

Paperback: 400 pages
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Book Description
Weste and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about leaing that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr. Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Weste mind model and the East Asian virtue model of leaing. 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 leaing process, leaing affect, regard of one’s leaing peers, expression of what one knows, and parents’ guiding efforts. Despite today’s accelerated cultural exchange, these leaing models do not diminish but endure.