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How Other Children Learn
What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning
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2023
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To gain comparative insights into middle-class Americans’ child-related values and practices, Grove’s How Other Children Learn examines children’s learning and parents’ parenting in five traditional societies. Such societies are those have not been affected by “modern” – urban, industrial – values and ways of life. They are found in small villages and camps where people engage daily with their natural surroundings and have little or no experience of formal classroom instruction.
The five societies are the Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, the Quechua of highland Peru, the Navajo of the U.S. Southwest, the village Arabs of the Levant, and the Hindu villagers of India. Each society has its own chapter, which overviews that society’s background and context, then probes adults’ mindsets and strategies regarding children’s learning and socialization for adulthood.
The book concludes with two summary chapters that draw broadly on anthropologists’ findings about many traditional societies and offer examples from the five societies discussed earlier. The first reveals why children in traditional societies willingly carry out family responsibilities and suggests how American parents can attain similar outcomes. The second contrasts our middle-class patterns of child-rearing with traditional societies’ ways of enabling children to learn and grow into contributing family and community members.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6289-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6290-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
What Do Anthropologists of Childhood Actually Do? No access Pages 1 - 18
Raising Oneself in the Forest No access Pages 19 - 46
Nothing Special for the Children No access Pages 47 - 72
Parenting by Persuading No access Pages 73 - 98
According to Nomads’ Values No access Pages 99 - 126
The Total Immersion Family No access Pages 127 - 156
How Do Other Children Learn Responsibility? No access Pages 157 - 168
How Do Other Children Learn? And How Do Other Parents Parent? No access Pages 169 - 192
