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The Cultural Nature of Human Development

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Oxford University Press, Jan 15, 2003 - Science - 448 pages
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.
  

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User Review  - Chalice Charpentier - Goodreads

Tough to get through but valuable information about culture and racism that many of us don't realize goes on right under our noses. It really opens your horizons about how the word "culture" is defined. Read full review

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User Review  - Tiffany - Goodreads

Again, had to read this one for school. It was full of a lot of great information on the different cultural history of America and how this diversity can create problems, but can also be an immense ... Read full review

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Contents

1 Orienting Concepts and Ways of Understanding the Cultural Nature of Human Development
3
2 Development as Transformation of Participation in Cultural Activities
37
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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