This book introduces the concept of reciprocal educational learning among cultures with very
different historical and philosophical origins. The concept of reciprocal learning grows out of
a four year study of immigrant Chinese family narrative experiences in a Western context. This
book captures the lived moments of such transitional lives both in and out of school settings
to demonstrate why a child would appear and disappear from different caregivers' purview.
Through the narrative lens of student and family life the study illustrates the intersection
of Confucian and Western philosophies of education and how their interaction creates
complications as well as benefits for both traditions hence the idea of reciprocal learning.
