Development of teaching in ni-Vanuatu children.

Autor: Brandl E; Lise Meitner Research Group BirthRites, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany., Emmott EH; Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK., Mace R; Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child development [Child Dev] 2023 Nov-Dec; Vol. 94 (6), pp. 1713-1729. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 14.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13946
Abstrakt: Teaching is an important mechanism of social learning. In industrialized societies, 3-year-olds tend to teach through demonstrations and short commands, while 5-year-olds use more verbal communication and abstract explanations. However, it remains unclear whether this generalizes to other cultures. This study presents results from a peer teaching game with 55 Melanesian children (4.7-11.4 years, 24 female) conducted in Vanuatu in 2019. Up to age 8, most participants taught through a participatory approach, emphasizing learning-by-doing, demonstrations, and short commands (57.1% of children aged 4-6 and 57.9% of children aged 7-8). Contrary to Western findings, abstract verbal communication only became common in children aged 9-11 (63.6%), suggesting that the ontogeny of teaching is shaped by the socio-cultural environment.
(© 2023 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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