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Playing on the mother-ground : cultural routines for children's development / David F. Lancy.
LIBRA DT630.5.K63 L35 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lancy, David F.
- Series:
- Culture and human development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children, Kpelle--Education.
- Children, Kpelle.
- Children, Kpelle--Games.
- Children, Kpelle--Cultural assimilation.
- Learning, Psychology of.
- Child development--Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle.
- Child development.
- Child psychology--Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle.
- Child psychology.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Games.
- Education.
- Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)--Social life and customs.
- Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia).
- Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford press, [1996]
- Summary:
- r the most part, have taken white, middle-class, Euro-American children as the norm. These "typical" children, however, are exposed to two major enculturating influences that are by no means common across cultures: formal schooling and parents who consciously attempt to serve as teachers at home. Providing an important contribution toward a more universal understanding of child development, this volume concentrates on children in West Africa who do not follow the developmental trajectory outlined in contemporary developmental theory. Based on first-hand fieldwork, the book describes children growing up in a remote central Liberian village without a school, a church, or a store.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1572301422
- OCLC:
- 35223039
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