Asian Education Miracles

In Search of Sociocultural and Psychological Explanations

Gregory Arief Liem, Ser Hong Tan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351719889
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology

With a focus on Asian contexts, this book brings together knowledge on how values and practices, embedded and practised in the classroom, school, family, and the society at large, can influence students' motivation, engagement and psychological well-being. The book synthesizes research on students and systems from culturally diverse Asian countries and economies, including Cambodia, Hong Kong-China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and beyond. The book takes special interest in applying the insights gained from understanding students' motivation, engagement, and well-being within their sociocultural contexts. Importantly, chapters in the book are grounded on thorough theoretical reviews and sound empirical findings, which together inform practical applications to enhance the motivation, engagement, and well-being of students in the Asian region. Taken together, this book will serve as a comprehensive and authoritative source for scholars, researchers, and practitioners (teachers, school policy makers, and educators in general) who are interested in examining and enhancing student motivation, engagement, and well-being from Asian perspectives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• About the authors
• 1 Sociocultural and psychological foundations of the Asian education miracles
• 2 Cambodian students’ motivation for learning: the role of teachers and parenting practices
• 3 Social goal orientation, behavioral engagement and coping of Hong Kong Chinese students
• 4 The Asian-Indian Hindu immigrant adolescents’ experiences of home-school cultural dissonance and achievement motivation: Do parenting practices matter?
• 5 Indonesian students’ academic engagement and the role of teachers’ teaching behavior in secondary education
• 6 Autonomous motivation and the need for autonomy: findings and new theoretical developments in Israel
• 7 Growing up in the walled garden: motivation, engagement, and the Japanese educational experience
• 8 Why aren’t Korean students happy?: tracing back to the sources of their academic distress
• 9 Sociocultural dimensions of student motivation: research approaches and insights from the Philippines
• 10 Exploring the power of teacher feedback in Chinese students: testing the relationships between students’ feedback beliefs and student engagement
• 11 Parental expectation and pressure, achievement motivation, and engagement of Singapore students: a self-determination theory perspective
• 12 Feedback as implicit motivational incentives: approach and avoidant achievement-motivated Singaporean university students’ responses to success versus failure feedback
• 13 Effort beliefs count: the predictive effects of effort beliefs on students’ emotion, attribution, and behavior toward academic failure in a Confucian cultural context
• 14 Expanding on the theoretical concept of “optimization” for effective learning: establishing empirical evidence from an Eastern sociocultural context
• 15 Learning environments and student motivation and engagement: a review of studies from Thailand
• 16 Relations among various motivational constructs with academic achievement in mathematics for boys and girls in an Arabic cultural context
• 17 One Asia, diverse cultures, multiple forms of student motivation
• Index