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Assignment:
3 to 4 pages
- Explain how the East Asian approach to interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture contributes to high educational achievement in East Asian countries.
- Explain how the absence of interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture may correspond to low educational achievement in the United States.
- Explain whether you believe the East Asian approach to interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture might be "imported" into American culture in order to improve educational achievement. Explain your answer.
To prepare for this Assignment:
- Review Chapter 5 in your course text, paying particular attention to the section on understanding achievement in East Asia.
- Review the article "Indigenous psychological analysis of academic achievement in Korea: The influence of self-efficacy, parents, and culture." Focus on the following sections: "Traditional approaches; cultural values," "Family and self-cultivation in Korea," and "Discussion."
- Think about how the factors of interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture contribute to high educational achievement in East Asian countries such as Korea.
- Consider how the absence of interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture may correspond with low educational achievement in the United States.
- Think about whether you believe the East Asian approach to interdependence and proxy control, self-regulation, collective control, and organizational culture might somehow be "imported" into American culture in order to improve educational achievement.
Please read and view (where applicable) the following Learning Resources before you complete this week's assignments.
Resources:
Course Text: Stevens, M. J., & Gielen, U. P. (2007). Toward a glob al psychology: Theory, research, intervention, and pedagogy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Chapter 5, "Development of Indigenous Psychologies: Understanding People in a Global Context"
Allwood, C. M., & Berry, J. W. (2006). Origins and development of indigenous psychologies: An international analysis International Journal of Psychology, 41(4), 243-268.
This seminal article examines the development of indigenous psychology in different parts of the world.
Uichol, K., & Young-Shin, P. (2006). Indigenous psychological analysis of academic achievement in Korea: The influence of self-efficacy, parents, and culture International Journal of Psychology, 41(4), 287-292.
This article explains how indigenous psychology has contributed to academic achievement in Korea.