Thinking Across Cultures

Download or read book Thinking Across Cultures written by Donald M. Topping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.