How Other Children Learn - What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us About Parenting Children s

Grove takes a comprehensive look at parenting and children's learning in five traditional societies: Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, Quechua of highland Peru, Navajo of the U.S. Southwest, village Arabs of the Levant, and Hindu villagers of India.

List 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

About the author

By Cornelius N. Grove

Summary

Grove takes a comprehensive look at parenting and children’s learning in five traditional societies: Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, Quechua of highland Peru, Navajo of the U.S. Southwest, village Arabs of the Levant, and Hindu villagers of India.

Product details

• Authors: Cornelius N. Grove, Grove Cornelius N.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781475871180
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-7118-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Education, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Reference, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education, Educational psychology, Reference works, Advice on parenting, Parenting: advice & issues