A cultural-historical study of how children from Hong Kong immigrant families develop a learning motive within everyday family practices in Australia

A cultural-historical study of how children from Hong Kong immigrant families develop a learning motive within everyday family practices in Australia

• Wong, Pauline Pui Ling Monash University, Australia
• Fleer, Marilyn Monash University, Australia

Mind, Culture, and Activity, 19(2), 107-126, 2012

Routledge

2012

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AE Socioeconomic & Cultural Differences, Class & Family Background
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AG Child Development & Health

Child Development Chinese Australians Cultural Influences Family Life Learning Motivation Migrants Parent Influence Primary School Students Case Studies

• Hong Kong
• Australia

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

This article draws on a cultural-historical theorisation of child development alongside the Chinese concept of learning in order to study children's development in the Hong Kong Australian community in Melbourne, Australia. In particular, it aims to understand in detail how a 9-year-old child develops a learning motive under highly structured family practices. The data analysed were selected from a larger set of data involving 80 hours of video observations generated from the recording of everyday practices in three Hong Kong immigrant families. The findings indicate that encouragement plays an important role in bridging the gap between parental demands and the child's wishes, which assists the child to appropriate family values, thus facilitating the development of a learning motive and learning itself.
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Refereed article

• English

Journal Articles

• 10749039

• 10.1080/10749039.2011.634941

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/7bfe7479

2014-06-24