2013-14

Culture and Children's Learning Beliefs

CMEI Colloquium
Larsen Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
April 15, 2014

Learning is a universal human capacity and activity. However, Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning. These beliefs influence how they approach learning, childrearing, and education. What are the different beliefs and why are they so different? Based on decades of research, Dr. Li has advanced a conceptual distinction between the Western mind-model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims at cultivating the mind to...

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