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Title Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors : A Cultural Paradigm / edited by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, and Barbara Rogoff
Published Waltham, MA : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xlv, 435 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in child development and behavior ; volume 49
Advances in child development and behavior ; v. 49.
Contents A cultural paradigm -- learning by observing and pitching in -- Collaborative work or individual chores : the role of family social organization in children's learning to collaborate and develop initiative -- Children's everyday learning by assuming responsibility for others : Indigenous practices as a cultural heritage across generations -- Supporting children's initiative : appreciating family contributions or paying children for chores -- Adults' orientation of children -- and children's initiative to pitch in -- to everyday adult activities in a Tsotsil Maya community -- Respect and autonomy in children's observation and participation in adults' activities -- Mayan children's creation of learning ecologies by initiative and cooperative action -- Children's avoidance of interrupting others' activities in requesting help : cultural aspects of considerateness -- Young children's attention to what's going on : cultural differences -- Dia de los muertos : learning about death through observing and pitching in -- Conceptions of educational practices among the Nahuas of Mexico : past and present -- Learning to inhabit the forest : autonomy and interdependence of lives from a Mbya-Guarani perspective -- Learning and human dignity are built through observation and participation in work -- Learning by observing, pitching in, and being in relations in the natural world -- Using history to analyze the Learning by Observing and Pitching In practices of contemporary Mesoamerican societies -- "My teacher is going to think they're crazy" : responses to LOPI practices in U.S. first-grade classrooms -- Learning by observing and pitching in and the connections to native and Indigenous knowledge systems -- Children's participation in ceremonial life in Bali : extending LOPI to other parts of the world
Summary Annotation This volume highlights patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, while expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common. It documents the organisation of children's learning and social lives, especially among children whose families have historical roots in the Americas, where children traditionally are included and contribute to the activities of their families and communities, and where Western schooling is a recent foreign influence. The findings and theoretical arguments reveal a coherent picture of the importance of the development of children's participation in ongoing activity as presented by authors with extensive experience living and working in such communities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Text in English
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Subject Learning.
Education -- Social aspects
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education -- Social aspects
Learning
Form Electronic book
Author Correa-Chávez, Maricela, editor
Mejía Arauz, Rebeca, editor.
Rogoff, Barbara, editor.
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