Mother-Infant Interaction Unfolds Using Mixed Methods: An Examination of Two Cultural Sites.

How socialization happens on the ground: Narrative practices as alternate socializing pathways in Taiwanese and European-American families. Specifically, the longitudinal design would clarify whether directive guidance is constantly practiced with infants as they develop and shed light onto how Chinese-heritage parents reinforce the ideologies such as I gu an i , I xiào i , and I dào dé guan i in everyday socialization practices. Keywords: Mother-infant interaction; Assets-based learning; Chinese culture; Directive guidance; Mixed-methods design EN Mother-infant interaction Assets-based learning Chinese culture Directive guidance Mixed-methods design 139 143 5 08/07/21 20210501 NES 210501 The article by Zhang, Wang, and Duh (2021, this issue, DOI: 10.1159/000517081) provides a comprehensive review of the existing research concerning cultural ways of learning focusing on Chinese and Taiwanese cultures (e.g., Li, 2012), verbal and nonverbal aspects of socialization (e.g., Goldin-Meadow & Saltzman, 2000; Miller et al., 2012), learning through observation (e.g., Gaskins & Paradise, 2010), and multifaceted frameworks of learning (e.g., Rogoff, 2014). Second, this study demonstrates and expands culture-specific socialization practices in Chinese-heritage communities from 2 years old to as early as 9 months old. [Extracted from the article]