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Title Learning in cultural context : family, peers, and school / [edited by] Ashley E. Maynard, Mary I. Martini
Published New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations
Series International and cultural psychology series
International and cultural psychology series.
Contents Cultural learning in context / Ashley E. Maynard -- I. CULTURAL PRACTICES AND WAYS OF LEARNING IN INFORMAL SETTINGS: Sociocultural contexts of learning / Mary Gauvain -- Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome / Thomas S. Weisner, Catherine Matheson, Jennifer Coots, and Lucinda P. Bernheimer -- An ethnomodel of teaching and learning: apprenticeshiip of Zinacantec Maya women's tasks / Ashley E. Maynard and Patricia M. Greenfield -- II. CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING EARLY LEARNING TO PRESCHOOLERS: Ola Ka Inoa (the name lives) : cultural imputs, naming practices, and early education outcomes of Hawaiian children / Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni and Iwalani Else --Cultural transmission of social knowledge in preschool: a Costa Rican perspective / Helen M. Davis -- Features of teaching associated with significant gains in language test scores by Hawaiian preschool children / Mary Martini -- Learning connections: a home-school partnership to enhance emergent literacy and emergent math skills in at-risk preschoolers / Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Dana M. Gorecki -- III. APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING LEARNING IN MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL SETTINGS: "You cannot cheat the footwork": moral training in adolescent dance classes / Laurie Schick -- Enacting the five standards for effective pedagogy in a culturally relevant high school program / Lois A. Yamauchi, Tasha R. Wyatt, and Jacquelin H. Carroll -- Aligning practice to theory: attitudes of students in re-cultured and comprehensive high schools / Nina K. Buchanan
Summary In these ten articles, contributors examine the ways that teaching and learning are central to transmit culture. They emphasize using social interaction, cultural tools, and history in children's development, based on the premise that learning is a cultural process that happens through participation. The articles about learning in informal settings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Learning -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Learning, Psychology of -- Cross-cultural studies
Clinical psychology.
Psychology, Clinical
EDUCATION -- Educational Psychology.
Learning, Psychology of.
Learning -- Social aspects.
Clinical psychology
Learning, Psychology of
Learning -- Social aspects
Leren.
Onderwijs.
Socioculturele factoren.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Cross-cultural studies
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Maynard, Ashley, 1972-
Martini, Mary I., 1949-
LC no. 2004054840
ISBN 9780387275505
0387275509
0306486830
9780306486838
0306486849
9780306486845
9786610263059
6610263051