How Other Children Learn von Cornelius N Grove

<p><span>To gain comparative insights into middle-class Americans child-related values and practices, Groves</span><span>How Other Children Learn</span><span>examines childrens learning and parents parenting in five traditional societies. Such societies are those have not been affected by modern urban, industrial values and ways of life. They are found in small villages and camps where people engage daily with their natural surroundings and have little or no experience of formal classroom instruction.</span></p><p><span>The five societies are the Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, the Quechua of highland Peru, the Navajo of the U.S. Southwest, the village Arabs of the Levant, and the Hindu villagers of India. Each society has its own chapter, which overviews that societys background and context, then probes adults mindsets and strategies regarding childrens learning and socialization for adulthood.</span></p><p><span>The book concludes with two summary chapters that draw broadly on anthropologists findings about many traditional societies and offer examples from the five societies discussed earlier. The first reveals why children in traditional societies willingly carry out family responsibilities and suggests how American parents can attain similar outcomes. The second contrasts our middle-class patterns of child-rearing with traditional societies ways of enabling children to learn and grow into contributing family and community members.</span></p><p></p>

Cornelius N. Groveis a former classroom teacher, he earned an Ed.D. at Columbia University, then taught Cross-Cultural Problems in Classroom Communication to graduate students there. A charter member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, he is the author of entries on pedagogy across cultures in two encyclopedias as well as two recent books that reveal the cultural values that equip East Asian students to consistently outperform American students on PISA and other international comparative tests.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. What Do Anthropologists of Childhood ActuallyDo?2. Raising Oneself in the Forest3. Nothing Special for the Children4. Parenting by Persuading5. According to Nomads' Values6. The Total Immersion Family7. 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' ParentingAppendix B. Sources of Information for the Five Main ChaptersPostscriptGeneral BibliographyEndnotes

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