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Preschool In Three Cultures: Japan, China And The United States
A comparison of Japanese, Chinese and American preschools, discussing how these schools both reflect and affect philosophies of child-rearing and early childhood education and larger social patterns and beliefs in each society.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
January 23rd 1991
by Yale University Press
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I'm already kind of annoyed at the lofty attitude the researchers and the American teachers are taking over the Japanese high student/teacher ratio. "Small classes are sooooo much better for four-year-olds and what do you mean we have a higher teen suicide rate in the US?"
Read the Japanese part and skipped the rest. In my mind, preschool really doesn't seem to matter as much as these authors think it does.
Also, the authors seemed to neglect the fact that, in Ja...more
Read the Japanese part and skipped the rest. In my mind, preschool really doesn't seem to matter as much as these authors think it does.
Also, the authors seemed to neglect the fact that, in Ja...more
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good ethnography - i think it's cool the way they show the video from each country to all the people in the same and other countries....helps to de-privilidge one viewpoint. it was cool to see the video in class too. you spend the whole time reading the book about it and then you can watch.
"Preschool in Three Cultures" should be a deep and fascinating examination of a fundamental and highly influential part of these societies, and it is. The level of detail and observation is incredible. The analysis - especially of the subtle causal relationships between behaviors - is insightful and well-expressed. It is also overwhelming. Where the writing should be clear in addition to perceptive, it is instead dense and overcomplicated. Where it should let us into foreign envir...more
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I learned this book on the recommendation of my totur at first,but in china,it's hard to buy it now，because there is no chinese edition yet.
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