The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood

by Lancy, David F.; Bock, John; Gaskins, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9780759113220
• ISBN10: 075911322X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-16
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Anthropological research on learning in childhood has been scarce, but this book will change that. It demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it shows the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David F. Lancy is professor of anthropology at Utah State University. John Bock is professor of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Suzanne Gaskins is professor of psychology at Northeastern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Figures and Credits	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Understanding The Anthropological Research
Putting Learning in Context	p. 3
An Evolutionary Perspective on Learning in Social, Cultural, and Ecological Context	p. 11
The Cross-Cultural Study of Children's Learning and Socialization: A Short History	p. 35
Parental Ethnotheories of Children's Learning	p. 65
Learning as a Social Process
Learning through Observation in Daily Life	p. 85
Work, Play, and Learning	p. 119
The Role of Adults in Children's Learning	p. 145
Learning from Other Children	p. 181
Learning in Schools	p. 207
Learning Cultural Meanings
Learning Communicative Competence	p. 235
Learning Morality	p. 261
Learning Gender Roles	p. 287
Learning to Make a Living
Skill Learning for Survival in Nonhuman Primates	p. 309
Learning the Environment	p. 341
Learning to Hunt	p. 371
Learning In and From the Past	p. 397
Learning in the 21 St Century
Learning on the Streets: Peer Socialization in Adverse Environments	p. 421
Children's Learning in New Settings	p. 443
Index	p. 465
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 479
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