Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Why I Wrote This Book
How I Came to Write This Book
Receptive to Learning
Acknowledgements
Introduction
An Overview of How This Book Proceeds
The Plan of This Book
About This Book
Chapter 1: Daring to Seek Answers
The Question, Restated
The Parts of the Paradox
Reviewing Step 1 of the Discovery Process
Chapter 2: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
Questioning Eyewitness Reports
Passiveness in Class
Rote Memorizing
How Step 2 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 3: Exploring Motivations
The Agony of Defeat
Why Motivations Differ
How Step 3 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 4: Analyzing Determination
From China to America
Deep Meanings of Learning
How Step 4 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 5: Assessing Emotional Drive
Self and Family
Mothers and Motivation
Self, Emotion, and Drive to Learn
How Step 5 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 6: Thinking Like a Sociologist
Learning in Different Societies
Learning to Be Competent; Learning in School
The Episode with the Key
How Step 6 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 7: Thinking Like a Historian
Taming Students in America
Taming Students in East Asia
Explaining East Asians' Drive to Learn
How Step 7 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 8: Revealing How Parents Think
The Outward Focus of the East Asian Family
Two Approaches to Raising Children
How the Chinese Talk about Parenting
How the Japanese Talk about Parenting
Cheerleaders and Coaches
How Step 8 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 9: Revealing What Parents Do
Maintain Very High Expectations...Consistently
Intervene to Insure that High Expectations are Met
A Revealing Study of Mothers and Children
How Step 9 Advanced Our Discovery Process
Chapter 10: So What Should We Do?
What Are Our Options?
So What Should Families Do?
Parenting with Guan: Seven Commitments to Your Child
Chapter 11: Responsibility and Creativity
Responsibility
Creativity
A Note About the Online Annotated Bibliography
Conclusion
Bibliography [standard, non-annotated]
Endnotes
