Children's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives

by Edited by Artin Göncü

• ISBN13: 9780521583244
• ISBN10: 0521583241
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume describes children's development in its cultural context. It stresses the point that children's development in diverse cultures follows different paths, depending on the developmental opportunities provided by their cultures. It illustrates that the everyday work at school, and play activities provided for children vary from one culture to another depending on the social and economical structure of children's cultures and adult beliefs about what is valuable for children's participation to secure optimal development. Thus, Children's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives proposes to study children's development and education within its social as well as cultural context. It brings together the most recent theoretical advances in cultural psychology in order to establish a framework for the studies reported in it.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
Robert A. LeVine
ONE Introduction
Children's and Researchers' Engagement in the World	3	(22)
Artin Goncu
TWO Children's Engagement in the World
Children's Daily Lives in a Mayan Village: A Case Study of Culturally Constructed Roles and Activities	25	(37)
Suzanne Gaskins
Cultural Heterogeneity: Parental Values and Beliefs and Their Preschoolers' Activities in the United States, South Korea, Russia, and Estonia	62	(37)
Jonathan Tudge
Diane Hogan
Soeun Lee
Peeter Tammeveski
Marika Meltsas
Natalya Kulakova
Irina Snezhkova
Sarah Putnam
THREE Children's Engagement in Play
Activity Setting Analysis: A Model for Examining the Role of Culture in Development	99	(29)
Jo Ann M. Farver
The Pragmatics of Caregiver-Child Pretending at Home: Understanding Culturally Specific Socialization Practices	128	(20)
Wendy L. Haight
Children's Play as Cultural Activity	148	(25)
Artin Goncu
Ute Tuermer
Jyoti Jain
Danielle Johnson
FOUR Children's Engagement in Planning, Math, and Literacy
Everyday Opportunities for the Development of Planning Skills: Sociocultural and Family Influences	173	(29)
Mary Gauvain
Supportive Environments for Cognitive Development: Illustrations from Children's Mathematical Activities Outside of School	202	(26)
Steven R. Guberman
Becoming Literate in the Borderlands	228	(33)
Christine C. Pappas
Index	261