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Author : Sing Lau
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9622016596
This volume is a collection of current research on Chinese child development: the context of development, cognitive development, social development, and new issues related to the topic.
Author : Stephen Ling
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532036880
GROWING UP CHINESE is a lively book with a funny, thoroughly enlightened author doing his best to tell his story and the story of one Chinese village in Malaya with tremendous insight, detail and compassion. The diverse culture in the land has emerged through multiple voices that the author struggled with in this coming-of-age memoir. He orchestrates all these voices to depict the complex life of growing up in a truly multicultural world. Most remarkably, this is the story of the American dream an ocean away from America. A young man born into poverty seeks a better life for himself by working hard and developing his innate talents to their fullest. He seeks to create and define his own life. Shades of Horatio Alger and Oliver Twist, this is an indelibly unforgettable story of one young mans quest for freedom, an education and a new life, a struggle by one undaunted by lifes hurdles and vicissitudes.
Author : Charles Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189568
Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities.How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' student be dealt with? What exactly do children owe their parents, and how should this debt be repaid? Is it morally acceptable to be jealous if one's neighbours suddenly become rich? Should the wrongs of the past be forgotten, e.g. in the interests of communal harmony, or should they be dealt with now?In the case of China, such questions have obviously been shaped by the historical contexts against which they have been posed, and by the weight of various Chinese traditions. But this book approaches them on a human scale. More specifically, it approaches them from an anthropological perspective, based on participation in the flow of everyday life during ethnographic fieldwork in Chinese communities.
Author : Gail Gamache,Liming Liu,Richard Tessler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780897897761
Who are the new families that are appearing on city streets, in suburban malls, and at Fourth of July celebrations? The parents, in their 40s and 50s, are obviously Caucasian, and their very young daughters are obviously Chinese. This book is about these new American & Chinese families that are being formed through the mechanism of international adoption. The first survey of bicultural Chinese-American children, based on personal experience and rigorous research, both documents these adoptions and examines their implications for American society. This book will be of great use to couples considering or living with adopted Chinese children, professionals in social welfare and education, and scholars and other researchers involved with American multiculturalism.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317201120
Taking a global look at what the category of childhood has meant from agricultural societies to the present day, Childhood in World History offers a vital overview of this topical field. Through comparative analysis, Peter Stearns facilitates a cross-cultural and transnational understanding of attitudes towards the role of children in society, and how "models" of childhood have developed throughout history. Engaging with issues around children’s role in the family and the involvement of communal, national, educational, and global infrastructures, Stearns unpacks the experience of childhood in the West, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This expanded and updated third edition includes: updated bibliographies and suggested readings expanded discussions of religion and children’s rights a new chapter on families in developing economies in the early twentieth century broadened discussions of childhood in Japan and in communist countries. With expanded further reading lists, Stearns’s accessible text not only provides an overview of its field but also offers a research guide for more specialized study. Concisely presented but broad in scope, Stearns’s accessible text guides readers through the transformations of the concept of childhood.
Author : Chun Yu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442460317
In China in 1966, Chun Yu was born as the Great Cultural Revolution began under Chairman Mao. Here, she recalls her childhood as a witness to a country in turmoil and struggle--the only life she knew.
Author : Willem Koops,Michael Zuckerman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0812237048
In 1900, Ellen Key wrote the international bestseller The Century of the Child. In this enormously influential book, she proposed that the world's children should be the central work of society during the twentieth century. Although she never thought that her "century of the child" would become a reality, in fact it had much more resonance than she could have imagined. The idea of the child as a product of a protective and coddling society has given rise to major theories and arguments since Key's time. For the past half century, the study of the child has been dominated by two towering figures, the psychologist Jean Piaget and the historian Philippe Ariès. Interest in the subject has been driven in large measure by Ariès's argument that adults failed even to have a concept of childhood before the thirteenth century, and that from the thirteenth century to the seventeenth there was an increasing "childishness" in the representations of children and an increasing separation between the adult world and that of the child. Piaget proposed that children's logic and modes of thinking are entirely different from those of adults. In the twentieth century this distance between the spheres of children and adults made possible the distinctive study of child development and also specific legislation to protect children from exploitation, abuse, and neglect. Recent students of childhood have challenged the ideas those titans promoted; they ask whether the distancing process has gone too far and has begun to reverse itself. In a series of essays, Beyond the Century of the Child considers the history of childhood from the Middle Ages to modern times, from America and Europe to China and Japan, bringing together leading psychologists and historians to question whether we unnecessarily infantilized children and unwittingly created a detrimental wall between the worlds of children and adults. Together these scholars address the question whether, a hundred years after Ellen Key wrote her international sensation, the century of the child has in fact come to an end.
Author : Wendy Rouse Jorae
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807898581
Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.
Author : Kuo-Shu Yang,Kwang-Kuo Hwang,Paul Pedersen,Ikuo Daibo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313052507
This volume presents ways of thinking dramatically different from mainstream psychology, which is seen by many as primarily a product of Western civilization. Asian social psychologists in this edited collection apply Asian perspectives to issues of major concern in their societies, including parental beliefs about shame and moral socialization in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States; achievement motivation in Taiwan and the United States; and the effects of school violence on the psychological adjustment of Korean adolescents. Other chapters examine the role of social psychologists in Confucian societies, and group dynamics in Japan. The authors believe psychological research using an indigenous approach will enable Asian as well as non-Asian psychologists to understand the cognitions and behaviors of Asian people more accurately. Scholars and students interested in Asian psychology, social, cultural and cross-cultural psychology will find this volume of interest.
Author : Catherine McBride-Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781444144680
This introduction to child literacy development looks at the subject from an international perspective and is appropriate for students and professionals across a wide-range of disciplines.
Author : Nirmala Rao,Emma Pearson,Kai-ming Cheng,Margaret Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135073497
This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment. This in-depth, authentic, comparative analysis of the two largest educational systems in the world is a must-read for scholars interested in the teaching and learning in these two rapidly developing Asian cultures. A common set of questions has been addressed in diverse contexts. The empirical work on which this book is based is most impressive – videotaping of mathematics and language lessons, interviews with parents and educators questionnaires with parents, teachers and children and tests of children’s mathematics attainment – and this done in 3 locations in China, 3 in India and 12 schools in total.
Author : Catherine McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317909767
In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. The book covers issues including: The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to write The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic The role of visual processing in reading and writing skills How the latest research can inform the teaching of reading An overview of our understanding of dyslexia, including recent neuroscientific research The developmental challenges in becoming biliterate What is special about writing for beginners and later for comprehensive writing Basics of reading comprehension Children’s Literacy Development, Second Edition is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is the only book available that provides an overview of how children learn to read and write in different languages, and will be essential reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.
Author : Cornelius N. Grove
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475815115
Countless books and articles have offered remedies for the poor learning outcomes of American schoolchildren. Virtually all of these publications share one thing in common: They propose improvements in the policies and practices controlled by adult educators. Grove believes that our children’s poor learning cannot be totally the fault of educators. Our children are active participants in classrooms, so if there’s a problem with how well our children are learning, then we as parents might be at fault. To discover what our part is and explore what can be done about it, Grove draws on over 100 anthropological studies of children’s learning and child-rearing in China, Japan, and Korea. They reveal that those children, even the youngest ones, are highly receptive to classroom learning. Why do they come into classrooms with attentive and engaged attitudes? How did they acquire the drive to learn? Can American parents benefit from knowing how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing? The Drive to Learn explores these questions.
Author : Uwe P. Gielen,Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798216059714
This comprehensive reference analyzes psychological and anthropological studies concerning child and adolescent development across cultures, digging into often-forgotten topics like street children, child soldiers, and parenting in war-torn countries. Traditionally, research on child and adolescent development has focused on American youth, inadvertently neglecting 96 percent of the world's children. This all-encompassing volume introduces global perspectives on young people across the globe, focusing on such topics as parenting and childcare, gender roles, violence against girls, adolescence in poor and rich countries, and developmental psychopathology across cultures. Recently updated, the second edition includes the latest findings in the field, additional content, and new photos and charts. With contributions from leading psychological and anthropological scholars, chapters address worldwide changes in children's lives, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, immigrant children and their families, and adolescents in both industrialized and developing nations. A special section discusses children living in difficult circumstances, including street children, child soldiers, global nomads, and children suffering from various internalizing and externalizing disorders. This book is the perfect introduction to the latest trends in developmental psychology.
Author : Sing Lau,Anna N N Hui,Grace Y C Ng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814482820
' What actually is creativity? And what contributes to its conceptualization and development? For decades, these and other questions have fascinated researchers, educators, parents and laypeople alike, and equally so in the East and West. This interesting collection of articles is an attempt at exploring and answering the above questions from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Readers may find some answers stimulating, and others bewildering. This is in fact the reality and fascination of creativity research and education. It is hoped that readers will share the joy of reading such a road map. Contents:Creativity: A Meeting Between the East and the West (S Lau et al.)Personal Creativity and Culture (M Runco)Creativity: Developmental and Cross-Cultural Issues (T I Lubart & A Georgsdottir)Creativity Among Chinese People: Beyond Western Perspective (E Rudowicz)Why is There a Paradox in Promoting Creativity in the Asian Classroom? (A K Ng & I Smith)Creativity and Innovation: East-West Comparisons with an Emphasis on Chinese Societies (K Leung et al.)Progress from Traditional to Creativity Education in Chinese Societies (V M Y Cheng)Recognizing and Nurturing Creativity in Chinese Students (J-J Wu)The Social Psychology of Creativity: The Beginnings of a Multicultural Perspective (B A Hennessey)Beauty is in the Eye of the Creator — A Psychological and Cross-Cultural Account of Children's Understanding of Pictorial Art (S F Lin)Blue Apples and Purple Oranges: When Children Paint Like Picasso (K C Soh)Singapore's Creativity Education: A Framework of Fostering Constructive Creativity (A-G Tan)Inspiring Creativity Through Music (M Adachi & Y Chino)Creativity and Multiple Intelligences: The DISCOVER Project and Research (C J Maker)Nurturing Creative Thinking: Western Approaches and Eastern Issues (G J Puccio & D W González) Readership: Students, instructors, researchers and professionals in education, Asian culture/politics/society and psychology. Keywords:Creativity;East;West;Culture;Creative Thinking;Chinese;Asia;Education;PsychologyReviews:“A particularly impressive feature of this book is the cultural diversity and regional variations represented by the range of authors … this book extended my understanding of the relationship between culture and creativity through the presentation of central theories and solid empirical evidence. It is also a good general reference book for anyone who is interesting in studying creativity or other topics with a cultural theme.”American Journal of Psychology '