YUELI Academic class 118, level 6
Reading Summary 1
September 15th, 2007
Grace Guan
Cultural Values and Parenting Education
According to authors Sharon L. Kagan and Amy E. Lowenstein in their article “Cultural Values and Parenting Education,” (Developing Cultures, 2006, P37-56), they state the relationship between parenting education and cultural values.
In the article, Kagan and Lowenstein place parenting education into three contexts. They are the definitional context, the historical context and the contemporary context (Developing Cultures, 2006, P38). The Definitional Context: Parenting and parenting education are different in their orientation. (Kagan and Lowenstein, 2006, P38) authors explain that “parenting is private, inculcates values, and acculturates children to familial and social norms. Parenting education is less private, and while it inculcates values, it focuses more on changing behaviors” (Kagan and Lowenstein, 2006, P38). The Historical Context: parenting education was been mentioned at the fifteenth century in Europe when children were been exalted and became important to the future of the state (Kagan and Lowenstein, 2006, P39-40). The Contemporary Context: in Kagan and Lowenstein’s article, the Whitings noted that “the level of cultural complexity affected how parents fashioned their children’s social roles and behavior” (2006, P44).
In conclusion, according to Kagan and Lowenstein’s article, parenting education tend to alter parenting behaviors rather than parents’ values.
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2 comments:
nice summary , interesting topic.
Hi! Grace. This is Jung.
You was the first person to talk about the summary in our group. Once you tell us your topis was comparing and contrast between oriental and western, I expected you were going to talking about common cultural thing or traditional thing. But surprisingly you was started to talk about parenting. It seemed interesting. Yo slowly explained your summary, checking whether we underatanded it or not; so, I could understand most of them even though it was really new to me and a little difficult to get. I believe your researh paper is going to be a relly interesting one. I hope I could get a chance to read your research paper later. Thanks for reading it and see you tomorrow.
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