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Development of Moral Reasoning in Situational and Cultural Contexts
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Lo, Jesse Ho-Yin; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This article examines relationships between children and youths' judgments and their justifications of truth telling and verbal deception, in situational and cultural contexts. Han Chinese, Euro-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, seven- to 17-years of age were presented competitive scenarios in which protagonists told either lies to protect, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Context, Ethics, Sociocultural Patterns
Communication Patterns between Internationally Adopted Children and Their Mothers: Implications for Language Development
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Gauthier, K.; Genesee, F.; Dubois, M. E.; Kasparian K. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study presents findings on patterns of communication between internationally adopted children and their mothers in order to better understand the nature of these interactions and their influence on language learning. We examined maternal language use and joint attention behaviors of mothers and their children in 21 mother-child pairs: 10…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adoption, North Americans, Foreign Countries
Theory of Mind Development in Chinese Children: A Meta-Analysis of False-Belief Understanding across Cultures and Languages
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Liu, David; Wellman, Henry M.; Tardif, Twila; Sabbagh, Mark A. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Theory of mind is claimed to develop universally among humans across cultures with vastly different folk psychologies. However, in the attempt to test and confirm a claim of universality, individual studies have been limited by small sample sizes, sample specificities, and an overwhelming focus on Anglo-European children. The current meta-analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, North Americans, Cognitive Development
Who Is the Real Owner? Or How a Simple Pepsi-Cola Story Can Help Students Build Critical Thinking Skills
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Galetcaia, Tatiana; Thiessen, Loreena – TESL Canada Journal, 2010
Besides language competence, international students must develop a systematic approach to processing information and follow up with co-construction of the knowledge acquired. Critical thinking is a crucial principle commonly required in North American universities for evaluating academic texts. This practice may present certain difficulties for…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment
A Narrative Inquiry of Cross-Cultural Lives: Lives in Canada, Part 2
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He, Ming Fang – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
In a series of three papers, I examined the identity-development of three Chinese women teachers as they moved back and forth between Eastern and Western cultures and languages amid the rapidly changing events of the last four decades. I use a river metaphor to explore three phases in the cross-cultural lives of these women: in the first paper,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, Figurative Language, Females
A Narrative Inquiry of Cross-Cultural Lives: Lives in China
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He, Ming Fang – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
In a series of three papers, I examine the identity development of three Chinese women teachers as they moved back and forth between Eastern and Western cultures and languages amid the rapidly changing events of the last four decades. I use a river metaphor to explore three phases in the cross-cultural lives of these women: in the first paper,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, Figurative Language, Social Isolation