
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood.
Title:
The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood.
Author:
Lancy, David F.
ISBN:
9780759113244
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Contents:
Foreword -- Part I: Understanding the Anthropological Research -- Chapter 1: Putting Learning in Context -- Chapter 2: An Evolutionary Perspective on Learning in Social, Cultural, and Ecological Context -- Chapter 3: The Cross-Cultural Study of Children's Learning and Socialization: A Short History -- Chapter 4: Parental Ethnotheories of Children's Learning -- Part II: Learning as a Social Process -- Chapter 5: Learning through Observation in Daily Life -- Chapter 6: Work, Play, and Learning -- Chapter 7: The Role of Adults in Children's Learning -- Chapter 8: Learning from Other Children -- Chapter 9: Learning in Schools -- Part III: Learning Cultural Meanings -- Chapter 10: Learning Communicative Competence -- Chapter 11: Learning Morality -- Chapter 12: Learning Gender Roles -- Part IV: Learning to Make a Living -- Chapter 13: Skill Learning for Survival in Nonhuman Primates -- Chapter 14: Learning the Environment -- Chapter 15: Learning to Hunt -- Chapter 16: Learning in and from the Past -- Part V: Learning in the 21st Century -- Chapter 17: Learning on the Streets: Peer Socialization in Adverse Environments -- Chapter 18: Children's Learning in New Settings -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Abstract:
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view of psychologists, sociologists, educators, and anthropologists.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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