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Contrasting One's Share of the Shared Life Space: Comparing the Roles of Metacognition and Inhibitory Control in the Development of Theory of Mind among Scottish and Japanese Children
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Mariel Symeonidou; Ai Mizokawa; Shinsuke Kabaya; Martin J. Doherty; Josephine Ross – Developmental Science, 2024
Cultural comparisons suggest that an understanding of other minds may develop sooner in independent versus interdependent settings, and vice versa for inhibitory control. From a western lens, this pattern might be considered paradoxical, since there is a robust positive relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and inhibitory control in western…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Children, Role Theory, Inhibition
Parenting Measurement, Normativeness, and Associations with Child Outcomes: Comparing Evidence from Four Non-Western Cultures
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Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Coping with Emotionally Challenging Expectations: Japanese Beginning Teachers and Their Relationships with Students' Parents'
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Lassila, Erkki T.; Estola, Eila; Kelchtermans, Geert; Uitto, Minna – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
This article examines emotionally challenging expectations in the relationships beginning teachers have with students' parents. The data consist of narrative interviews with 17 Japanese beginning teachers. Due to strong cultural and social norms prescribing appropriate social interactions, Japanese teachers have little leeway in negotiating…
Descriptors: Coping, Expectation, Emotional Experience, Beginning Teachers
Teachers' Embodied Mitigation against Allocating Turns to Unwilling Students
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Ishino, Mika – Classroom Discourse, 2022
During teacher-centred classroom interaction, teachers often fail to solicit volunteer turn-takers. Even if students display their unwillingness to take a turn at the moment, teachers sometimes have no choice but to allocate them the turn, to move forward with the ongoing pedagogical activity. In such a moment, there can be a conflict between the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
Intracultural and Intercultural Contact Orientation of International Students in Japan: Uncertainty Management by Cultural Identification
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Taniguchi, Norihito; Takai, Jiro; Skowronski, Dariusz – Journal of International Students, 2022
The lack of exchange between international students and host nationals in Japan has long been a pressing issue, yet very little progress has been made to rectify this situation. In this study, we examined this issue by focusing on how international students in Japan perceive cultural contact with their host and home culture members during their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Japanese