The drive to learn : what the East Asian experience tells us about raising students who excel / Cornelius N. Grove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grove, Cornelius N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gifted children--Asia.

Gifted children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch01. Discovery Step 1: Daring to Seek Answers

Ch02. Discovery Step 2: Evaluating Eyewitness Reports

Ch03. Discovery Step 3: Exploring Motivations

Ch04. Discovery Step 4: Analyzing Determination

Ch05. Discovery Step 5: Assessing Emotional Drive

Ch06. Discovery Step 6: Thinking like a Sociologist

Ch07. Discovery Step 7: Thinking like a Historian

Ch08. Discovery Step 8: Revealing How Parents Think

Ch09. Discovery Step 9: Revealing What Parents Do

Ch10. So What Should We Do?

Ch11. Responsibility and Creativity

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

A Note about the Online Annotated Bibliography

THE STORY BEHIND THIS BOOK'S COVER PHOTO.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 7, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-82-16-27388-2

1-4758-1511-5

OCLC:

990545866