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Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura; Mayuko Horimoto; Jessica Hinshaw – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2024
The purpose of the study is to understand how Japanese women become social entrepreneurs. The challenges in fostering women's entrepreneurship include socio-cultural traditional views on women's roles and expectations and insufficient support systems. Despite such challenges, the rise of Japanese women as social entrepreneurs has been observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Asian Culture, Females
Chen, Xinyin, Ed.; Rubin, Kenneth H., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2011
Filling a significant gap in the literature, this book examines the impact of culture on the social behaviors, emotions, and relationships of children around the world. It also explores cultural differences in what is seen as adaptive or maladaptive development. Eminent scholars discuss major theoretical perspectives on culture and development and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Aggression, Social Behavior
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Goranson, Donald G., Ed. – 1992
Designed for secondary students, the 20 lessons in this volume promote education for, with, and about older adults and prepare students to participate in the changing world. Lessons 1-3 explore attitudes about aging through word association, confront the aging process, and examine values regarding time. Lessons 4-6 study aging in different times…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Aging Education, Ancient History, Attitude Change
Shwalb, David W., Ed.; Shwalb, Barbara J., Ed. – 1996
The context of Japanese childrearing has changed during the postwar era. Noting that "new" observations concerning childrearing and socialization may not actually be new, this volume establishes continuity with past researchers by integrating the past half-century of cross-cultural research on Japanese childrearing and socialization,…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences