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<span><span>The Drive to Learn</span><span> helps </span><span>American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.</span></span>

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

<span><span>Cornelius N. Grove</span><span> has maintained a fascination with the cultural factors that affect children’s ability to learn in school since receiving his Ed.D. from Teachers College in 1977. The managing partner of the global business consultancy Grovewell LLC, Cornelius is co-author of </span><span>Encountering the Chinese </span><span>(1999, 2010), author of entries on pedagogy across cultures in two encyclopedias (2015; 2017), and author of </span><span>The Aptitude Myth</span><span> (2015).</span></span>