NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Gottlieb, Alma; DeLoache, Judy – Cambridge University Press, 2016
Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? "A World of Babies" provides different answers to these and countless other child-rearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs about parenting. While celebrating that…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences, Poverty
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dat Bao, Editor; Thanh Pham, Editor – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances. It uses languages, cultural traits, and intellectual heritages in the Asia-Pacific region as an example to show the resistance to Western-based pedagogies due to disparities between…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Teacher Characteristics, Instructional Innovation
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