Learning in Cultural Context Family, Peers, and School

What events take place at the intersection of cultural identity, education, and experience? How can they be measured, replicated? How can teachers use such personal phenomena to enhance student performance? Extensively researched, Learning in Cultural Con

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Learning in Cultural Context Family, Peers, and School Ashley E. Maynard University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i

Mary I. Martini University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i

Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Learning in cultural context : family, peers, and school / [edited by] Ashley E. Maynard, Mary I. Martini. p. cm. — (International and cultural psychology series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48683-0 (hardbound) — ISBN 0-306-48684-9 (e-book) 1. Learning—Social aspects—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Learning, Psychology of—Cross-cultural studies. I. Maynard, Ashley E. II. Martini, Mary I. III. Series. LB1060.L3825 2005 370.15 23–dc22 2004054840

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Contributors

Lucinda P. Bernheimer, Department of Psychiatry, NPI Center for Culture and Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Nina K. Buchanan, Educatio