The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.

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 G¿an: Seven Commitments to Your ChildChapter 11: Responsibility and CreativityResponsibilityCreativityA Note About the Online Annotated BibliographyConclusionBibliography [standard, non-annotated]Endnotes