The Cultural Nature of Human Development

by Barbara Rogoff

Book Overview

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?
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195131339
• ISBN13: 9780195131338
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

good

alot of marks in it but still readable. I was warned about the highlighting but it was a little more than I thought it would be.

Culturally Complicated, But Brilliant

Rogoff's acclaimed concepts about how human development and culture naturally intertwine unfold in a highly intricate matter within this text. Like Jerome Bruner, her prose can overpopulate itself with too many techy terms for the average educator; however, if you can push through the woods of her thick style, you will uncover many truths about culture. As she puts forth, culture springs from the natural progression of social history and interaction. Each culture possesses its own scripts and nuances on what exists as "typical" development. I invite anyone to delve into her mind.

good insight

rogoff does well...very interesting research that has great depth. she brings very compelling information to the table.