The Cultural Nature of Human DevelopmentThree-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the capabilities of these children? Until recently, traditional understandings of human development held that a child's development is universal and that children have characteristics and skills that develop independently of cultural processes. Barbara Rogoff argues, however, that human development must be understood as a cultural process, not simply a biological or psychological one. Individuals develop as members of a community, and their development can only be fully understood by examining the practices and circumstances of their communities. |
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... language and other cultural tools and to learn from each other. Using such means as language and literacy, we can collectively remember events that we have not personally experienced —becoming involved vicariously in other people's ...
... language and other cultural tools and to learn from each other. Using such means as language and literacy, we can collectively remember events that we have not personally experienced —becoming involved vicariously in other people's ...
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... languages, customs, and conceptions of human nature (Riegel, 1973). Indeed, the word barbarous derives from the Greek ... language. They were barbaraphonoi, bar-bar-speakers [Homer, Iliad 2.867], and in Aristotle's view this made them ...
... languages, customs, and conceptions of human nature (Riegel, 1973). Indeed, the word barbarous derives from the Greek ... language. They were barbaraphonoi, bar-bar-speakers [Homer, Iliad 2.867], and in Aristotle's view this made them ...
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... language skill and likelihood of success in reading. The adults' judgments reflected their appreciation of the children's use of shared cultural scripts that specify what is interesting to tell and how to structure it (Michaels & Cazden ...
... language skill and likelihood of success in reading. The adults' judgments reflected their appreciation of the children's use of shared cultural scripts that specify what is interesting to tell and how to structure it (Michaels & Cazden ...
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... its own terms, a description that makes sense to people within the community needs to be stated in terms that also make sense outside the system. Often, descriptions are in a language different from that of the Orienting Concepts 31.
... its own terms, a description that makes sense to people within the community needs to be stated in terms that also make sense outside the system. Often, descriptions are in a language different from that of the Orienting Concepts 31.
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Barbara Rogoff. descriptions are in a language different from that of the community members, whether the shift is from one national language to another or from folk terms to academic terms. All languages refer to concepts of local ...
Barbara Rogoff. descriptions are in a language different from that of the community members, whether the shift is from one national language to another or from folk terms to academic terms. All languages refer to concepts of local ...
Contents
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3 Individuals Generations and Dynamic Cultural Communities | 63 |
4 Child Rearing in Families and Communities | 102 |
5 Developmental Transitions in Individuals Roles in Their Communities | 150 |
6 Interdependence and Autonomy | 194 |
7 Thinking with the Tools and Institutions of Culture | 236 |
8 Learning through Guided Participation in Cultural Endeavors | 282 |
9 Cultural Change and Relations among Communities | 327 |
References | 371 |
Credits | 413 |
Index | 415 |
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