Individualistic and collectivistic cultures

1.What is culture? How do individualistic and collectivistic cultures differ?

How do U.S. adolescents spend their time compared with adolescents in Europe and East Asia?

2.What is socioeconomic status? In what ways are children from impoverished backgrounds likely to have difficulty in school?

∙ How is ethnicity involved in children’s schooling?

What is the nature of second language learning?

What characterizes bilingual education?

3.In the context of education, are all ethnic differences negative? Come up with some differences that might be positive in U.S. classrooms.

Sharmala’s uncle has just played a trick on her. He presented her with a can that looked like a can of peanuts. However, when she opened the can, a cloth snake sprang out at her. Sharmala thought the trick was very funny and could hardly wait to play it on her brother. When her uncle asked her what she thought her brother would expect to be in the can, she giggled and responded, “Peanuts, but won’t he be surprised.” This is an example of Sharmala’s development of

a. the ability to allocate attention to different aspects of a problem

b. problem-solving expertise

c. metamemory

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