Confronting struggle learning - from a npr report

According to Jim Stigler, academic success is usually associated in the US with being smart, like a precondition or something students have or not have. Eastern cultures usually associate academic success with effort, discipline, and resilience: something students build. As a result, both have entirely different attitudes to confront learning challenges.

As the npr report establishes, this is not to mean that eastern children are better (or worst) than American kids. In fact, they have their own concerns, particularly in areas like creativity and improvisation.

Risky as it is to generalize by ‘cultures’, this report offers valuable elements for a discussion on the attitudinal domain and how to confront learning difficulties.