Beschreibung:
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.
PrefaceWhy I Wrote This BookHow I Came to Write This BookReceptive to LearningAcknowledgementsIntroductionAn Overview of How This Book ProceedsThe Plan of This BookAbout This BookChapter 1: Daring to Seek AnswersThe Question, RestatedThe Parts of the ParadoxReviewing Step 1 of the Discovery ProcessChapter 2: Evaluating Eyewitness ReportsQuestioning Eyewitness ReportsPassiveness in ClassRote MemorizingHow Step 2 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 3: Exploring MotivationsThe Agony of DefeatWhy Motivations DifferHow Step 3 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 4: Analyzing DeterminationFrom China to AmericaDeep Meanings of LearningHow Step 4 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 5: Assessing Emotional DriveSelf and FamilyMothers and MotivationSelf, Emotion, and Drive to LearnHow Step 5 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 6: Thinking Like a SociologistLearning in Different SocietiesLearning to Be Competent; Learning in SchoolThe Episode with the KeyHow Step 6 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 7: Thinking Like a HistorianTaming Students in AmericaTaming Students in East AsiaExplaining East Asians' Drive to LearnHow Step 7 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 8: Revealing How Parents ThinkThe Outward Focus of the East Asian FamilyTwo Approaches to Raising ChildrenHow the Chinese Talk about ParentingHow the Japanese Talk about ParentingCheerleaders and CoachesHow Step 8 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 9: Revealing What Parents DoMaintain Very High Expectations…ConsistentlyIntervene to Insure that High Expectations are MetA Revealing Study of Mothers and ChildrenHow Step 9 Advanced Our Discovery ProcessChapter 10: So What Should We Do?What Are Our Options?So What Should Families Do?Parenting with Guan: Seven Commitments to Your ChildChapter 11: Responsibility and CreativityResponsibilityCreativityA Note About the Online Annotated BibliographyConclusionBibliography [standard, non-annotated]Endnotes