What the West can learn from the East : Asian perspectives on the psychology of learning and motivation

West-East and East-West Learning: Some Psychological and Cultural Insights, Oon Seng Tan, Dennis M. McInerney, Arief D. Liem, and Ai-Girl Tan. Teaching Creativity as a Demand-Led Competency, Elena L. Grigorenko and Mei Tan. Western Influences on the East, Eastern Influences on the West: Lessons for the East and West, Julian G. Elliott and Nguyen Phuong-Mai. Western Educational Research: A Basic for Educational Reforms in Asia? David A. Watkins. Ability Versus Effort: Perceptions of Students From the East and from the West, Alexander S. Yeung and Anton Yeung. Cross-Cultural Views of Teacher Commitment in Malaysia: Their Nature and Their Effects, Nordin Abd Razak, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, and John P. Keeves. In the Students' Own Words: Etic and Emic Conceptual Analyses of Why and How Students Learn, Arief D. Liem, Elizabeth Nair, Allan B. I. Bernardo, and Paulus H. Prasetya. Filipino Adolescent Students' Conceptions of Learning Goals, Allan B. I. Bernardo, Maria Guadalupe C. Salanga, and Karla Marie C. Aguas. Motivational and Self-Goals of Female Students in Contemporary Japan, Dexter Da Silva and Dennis M. McInerney. Motivation, Attribution of Academic Experiences, and Achievement Among Arab Students Within a Sociocultural Context, Maher M. Abu-Hilal. Cross-Cultural Validation of Self-Regulated Learning in Singapore, Jerome I. Rotgans and Henk G. Schmidt. Future Goals and Self-Regulated Learning Among Singaporean Chinese Students: The Mediating Role of the Utility Values of Schooling, Academic Self-Concept, and Academic Motivation, Dennis M. McInerney, Arief D. Liem, Yasmin P. Y. Ortiga, Jie Qi Lee, and Adelaine. S. Manzano. Role of Fieldwork in Humanities and Social Studies Education, Chew Hung Chang and Giok Ling Ooi.