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Three-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.
Publisher : Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (February 13, 2003)
Language : English
Hardcover : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 0195131339
ISBN-13 : 978-0195131338
Item Weight : 1.7 pounds
Dimensions : 9.42 x 6.48 x 1.01 inches
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