Product Description
by Greg S. Goodman (Other), Norijuki Inoue (Author)
Mirrors of the Mind uses East Asian epistemology and cultural concepts as new conceptual tools to address fundamental questions that educators encounter. The book invites readers to critically reflect on commonly held assumptions about learning, cognition, motivation, development, and other essential areas of educational psychology and learning sciences and, with East Asian epistemology as an underlying theme, examines what it takes to improve educational practices. The book first introduces key issues and controversies in learning sciences, then discusses how to advance our understanding of learning and educational practices through a cross-cultural lens. This book challenges readers to critically examine their own assumptions, and to move beyond the limitations of the Western ways of thinking that have predominantly permeated the field. It will help readers develop new and mindful ways of thinking for improving educational practices. Designed to accompany or replace traditional textbooks in educational psychology, educational foundations, cognition and learning, human development, and other related fields, this book will be useful to educators and anyone seeking new, non-traditional ways of approaching learning and educational practices.
Author Biography
Noriyuki Inoue is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of San Diego, where he teaches educational psychology, cognition and learning, human development, and research method courses. He is actively involved in advancing scholarship in the area of cross-culturally oriented research incorporating East Asian cultural concepts and epistemology for improving educational practices. Originally from Japan, he taught at Japanese schools until he came to the United States in 1991 as a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. He received his M.Ed. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
