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Shusterman, Richard – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2009
After underlining the diversity of the Chinese and pragmatist philosophical traditions (which makes essentialist generalizing problematic), this paper examines the idea that a transcultural dialogue between them could generate a more resourceful new philosophy for our increasingly global culture. Since transcultural dialogue is facilitated by…
Descriptors: Art Education, Confucianism, Social Values, Ethics
Packevicz, Michael Joseph, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the educational world, there is a growing amount of scholarship directed toward China. Much Western writing has focused on the supposedly deficient aspects of Chinese education: rote memorization, large class size, teacher-centered methodology. While there are those who challenge the deficiency view of Chinese education--Watkins and Biggs, Jin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Asians
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Rajaram, Kumaran – World Journal of Education, 2013
Substantial numbers of Chinese mainland students are enrolled in overseas Western-based business courses but are dislocated from their home cultures. Business education curriculum and course designers need to understand how these students are best trained in western style education programs. Four-hundred students in Singaporean business training…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Western Civilization, Business Administration Education, Familiarity
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Chen, Shujun – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2010
This paper seeks to develop a theoretical framework that is applicable to research on recent immigrant Chinese mothers in the United States. Although Black, Chicana, and transnational feminist epistemologies exist in previous scholarship, there is no comparable discourse in the study of Chinese mothers' experiences in the United States. In this…
Descriptors: Mothers, Immigration, Non Western Civilization, Confucianism
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Wong, Sin Man; Leung, Angel Nga-Man; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Social Development, 2010
This study examined the perceived parental styles of maternal warmth and control, as well as adolescent filial piety, in relation to parent-child relationship quality, in 308 Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. The three mother-child relationship qualities measured were perceived maternal support, conflicts, and relationship depth. Adolescents'…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Qi – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
This paper, from historical and philosophical perspectives, presents Confucian education philosophy, a philosophy that is argued is a philosophy of lifelong learning. Examined and illustrated are the Confucian concepts of "Sage", a Confucian ideal human model, and "Jun Zi", a Confucian realistic educational result. Through "Sage", Confucius…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Lifelong Learning
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Chuang, Szu-Fang – International Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Globalization and technology advancement are creating more biculturalism at workplaces and learning settings. However, little is known about acculturation experience and its influence on a person's cultural values and learning preference. The research reported in this study investigates the impact of acculturation experiences upon the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Asian Americans, Cognitive Style
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Yu, Jianfu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
Confucianism, not only is the core of Chinese cultural educational thoughts but its influence has been identified in the West by the European scholars. And with the impact of Confucianism civilization, the theological authority in the Dark Ages wavered. The human-based ideas of Confucianism that people are the foundation of the country, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Confucianism, Western Civilization, Cultural Enrichment
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Tan, Sor-Hoon – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
This response to Zongjie Wu's "Interpretation, autonomy, and interpretation" focuses on the "battle between East and West" which contextualizes Wu's proposal to counter the current Western domination of Chinese pedagogic discourse with an "authentic language" recovered from the Chinese classics. It points out that it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Confucianism, Cross Cultural Studies
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Sheng, Xiaoming – Gender and Education, 2012
This article employs the concept of cultural capital to examine the ways in which social difference in terms of gender are played out in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice. The intention has been to provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Chinese mothers and fathers are involved in the process.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mothers, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement
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Yim, Hoi Yin Bonnie; Lee, Lai Wan Maria; Ebbeck, Marjory – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The teaching of values has seen renewed interest, as educators, policymakers and parents seek ways of increasing peaceful coexistence for children in a conflict-driven world. Education systems are again reviewing values as part of their core mission. Confucian values form the core of most Asian cultures, penetrating different levels of social…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
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Marginson, Simon – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The paper reviews Asia-Pacific higher education and university research, focusing principally on the "Confucian" education nations Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong China, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam. Except for Vietnam, these systems exhibit a special developmental dynamism--still playing out everywhere except Japan--and have created a…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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Chan, Anita Kit-wa – History of Education, 2012
The feminisation of teaching is an important topic in education and gender studies. Discussions have been enriched by comparative and international studies as well as a gendering perspective in which a complicated view of the role of the state has emerged. In colonial Hong Kong, although the government was limited in its support of teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Teaching (Occupation), Females
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Nguyen, Thi Minh Phuong; Jin, Putai; Gross, Miraca – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
The heritage of Confucianism has been immensely spread in East Asian countries, including Vietnam. This philosophy has been transferred from preceding generations and has influenced the Vietnamese way of life, especially the love for learning. Vietnamese gifted adolescents are part of the philosophically Confucian affected communal. This study…
Descriptors: Gifted, Confucianism, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This commentary reflects upon Lazar Stankov's thesis which regards "unforgiving nature of Confucian Asian societies" as the driving force underpinning academic success of students from these societies. The commentary considers theoretical perspectives put forward by Jian Wang and Emily Lin (2008), and by Chiu and Klassen (2010) as two alternative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety, Confucianism, Asian Culture
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