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How Other Children Learn

What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning

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How Other Children Learn

What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Do Anthropologists of Childhood Actually Do?
2. Raising Oneself in the Forest
3. Nothing Special for the Children
4. Parenting by Persuading
5. According to Nomads' Values
6. The Total Immersion Family
7. How Do Other Children Learn Responsibility?
8. How Do Other Children Learn? And How Do Other Parents Parent?
Appendix A. Tables of Anthropological Findings about Children's Learning and Parents' Parenting
Appendix B. Sources of Information for the Five Main Chapters
Postscript
General Bibliography
Endnotes

Product details

Published Jan 30 2023
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 278
ISBN 9781475862904
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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