What the West can learn from the East
Subtitle: Asian perspectives on the psychology of learning and motivation
By: edited by Oon Seng Tan ... [et al.].
Contributors: Tan, Oon Seng.
Series: Research in multicultural education and international perspectives
Publisher: Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781593119874; 9781593119881
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of -- Asia; Motivation in education -- Asia; Multicultural education -- Asia; Comparative education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: West-East and East-West learning: some psychological and cultural insights / Oon Seng Tan ... [et al.]; title: Teaching creativity as a demand-led competency / Elena L. Grigorenko and Mei Tan; title: Western influences on the East, Eastern influences on the West: lessons for the East and West / Julian G. Elliott and Nguyen Phuong-Mai; title: Western educational research: a basic for educational reforms in Asia? / David A. Watkins; title: Ability versus effort: perceptions of students from the East and from the West / Alexander S. Yeung and Anton Yeung; title: Cross-cultural views of teacher commitment in Malaysia: their nature and their effects / Nordin Abd Razak, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, and John P. Keeves; title: Etic and emic analyses of student learning / Arief D. Liem ... [et al.]; title: Filipino adolescent students' conceptions of learning goals / Allan B.I. Bernardo, Maria Guadalupe C. Salanga, and Karla Marie C. Aguas; title: Motivational and self-goals of female students in contemporary Japan / Dexter da Silva and Dennis M. McInerney; title: Motivation, attribution of academic experiences, and achievement among Arab students within a sociocultural context / Maher M. Abu-Hilal; title: Cross-cultural validation of self-regulated learning in singapore / Jerome I. Rotgans and Henk G. Schmidt; title: Future goals and self-regulated learning among singaporean chinese students: the mediating role of the utility values of schooling, academic self-concept; title: And academic motivation / Dennis M. McInerney ... [et al.]; title: Role of fieldwork in humanities and social studies education / Chew Hung Chang and Giok Ling Ooi.