tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post3749536846820874673..comments2024-03-08T00:21:56.482-08:00Comments on kitchen table math, the sequel: what paradox?Catherine Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-23050734359276848902012-09-05T18:12:08.369-07:002012-09-05T18:12:08.369-07:00I just skimmed the article, but my take-away is Ba...I just skimmed the article, but my take-away is Barry's: if the relationship is warm, kids don't perceive the teacher as "controlling."<br /><br />That's pretty much the essence of authoritative parenting as Laurence Steinberg describes it. Authoritative parents are warm AND strict.<br /><br />We have decades of research showing that the children of warm/strict parents fare better in school & friendship.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-66305116987810601292012-09-05T17:34:55.495-07:002012-09-05T17:34:55.495-07:00Of related interest is
David Geary's article ...Of related interest is <br /><a href="http://web.missouri.edu/~gearyd/GearyetalChina97.pdf" rel="nofollow">David Geary's article</a> "Computational and reasoning abilities in arithmetic: Cross-generational change in China and the United States" published in 1997.<br /><br />From the abstract:<br /><br /><br /><i>A Chinese advantage over Americans was found for economically relevant computational and rea-soning abilities in arithmetic for groups of 6th- and 12th-grade students matched or equated on general intelligence. No cross-national difference for computational or reasoning abilities was found for sam-ples of older (60- to 80-year-old) Chinese and American adults equated on general intelligence. The pattern of change in arithmetical competencies across cohorts suggests that the Chinese advantage in 6th and 12th grade is due to a cross-generational decline in competencies in the United States and a cross-generational improvement in China. </i><br /><br />From the article:<br /><br /><i>For computational arithmetic, individuals who started elemen-tary school in the 1920s and 1930s outperform--once age-related changes in processing speed are taken into account—individuals who began their primary education just after World War II (i.e., 1945), who, in turn, outperform individuals who began elementary school in the mid-1960s or later (Schaie, 1996).</i>Barry Garelickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281266848110087415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-26169461149154462132012-09-05T16:52:14.838-07:002012-09-05T16:52:14.838-07:00Doesn't the article say that Chinese kids and ...<i>Doesn't the article say that Chinese kids and white (?) American kids respond differently to the "same teacher controlling behaviors"?</i><br /><br />The article defines a subset of students in both cultures who react positively to the teacher controlling behaviors. <i> Regardless of culture, children with high social-emotional relatedness with teachers perceived the behaviors as less controlling than children with low social-emotional relatedness with teachers. It was also found that internalization mediated the relation between social-emotional relatedness and children's learning motivation in both cultures. The findings revealed cultural differences as well as similarities in the psychological process of internalization. </i><br /><br />Barry Garelickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281266848110087415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-90777548318762978522012-09-05T10:23:39.737-07:002012-09-05T10:23:39.737-07:00I started to write a comment and it turned into su...I started to write a comment and it turned into such a rant that I wrote a blog post instead:<br /><br /><a href="http://kidfriendlyschools.blogspot.com/2012/09/high-joy.html" rel="nofollow">High joy? High discipline?</a>FedUpMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00951858601020687242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-61275546169342213942012-09-05T10:09:29.865-07:002012-09-05T10:09:29.865-07:00Doesn't the article say that Chinese kids and ...Doesn't the article say that Chinese kids and white (?) American kids respond differently to the "same teacher controlling behaviors"? This suggests that what works in China may not work in the U.S.<br />Bostoniannoreply@blogger.com