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Cornelius N. Grove

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Description:Cornelius Grove explores societies in which classroom instruction plays little or no role in people’s lives: non-industrialized, pre-modern “traditional” societies. His book focuses on these: Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, Quechua herders of the high Andes, the Navajo of our own Southwest, village Arabs of the Middle East, and Hindu villagers of India. Anthropologists’ accounts of daily life in these societies, and of how young children in each one grow into adulthood, became Grove’s raw material. The result is How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children’s Learning (Rowman & Littlefield, which offers a 20% discount with code RLEGEN20).Some folks might think this book will provide practical new tips for raising their own children. Grove says that’s not its main value. Its value is that we can learn about ourselves – i.e., about Americans’ shared beliefs about good parenting – by looking into the mirror of traditional parenting and noting the contrasts between us and them. Here’s an example: Middle class Americans believe that parents must devote endless amounts of time, effort, and money to raising their youngsters, ensuring 24/7 that they are happy, well-rounded, knowledgeable, sociable, and shielded from every danger. Parents in traditional societies think exactly the opposite! Grove coined this maxim:“Modern parents parent as much as possible. Traditional parents parent as little as possible.”The environments in which middle-class Americans live, and in which traditional families live, are different in multiple ways. But parents in both types of society want the same outcome for their offspring: that they will become productive, responsible adults. Comparing how traditional parents try to ensure that outcome, and how we Americans try to ensure it, yields thought-provoking insights. These prompt readers to step back and ponder issues such as (a) to what extent they could limit their tendency to “parent as much as possible”; (b) whether there’s another way to get their children to share family responsibilities; and (c) how effectively their children are learning to be productive adults, given that they rarely observe their parents and other adults completing productive work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning. To get started finding How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Cornelius Grove explores societies in which classroom instruction plays little or no role in people’s lives: non-industrialized, pre-modern “traditional” societies. His book focuses on these: Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, Quechua herders of the high Andes, the Navajo of our own Southwest, village Arabs of the Middle East, and Hindu villagers of India. Anthropologists’ accounts of daily life in these societies, and of how young children in each one grow into adulthood, became Grove’s raw material. The result is How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children’s Learning (Rowman & Littlefield, which offers a 20% discount with code RLEGEN20).Some folks might think this book will provide practical new tips for raising their own children. Grove says that’s not its main value. Its value is that we can learn about ourselves – i.e., about Americans’ shared beliefs about good parenting – by looking into the mirror of traditional parenting and noting the contrasts between us and them. Here’s an example: Middle class Americans believe that parents must devote endless amounts of time, effort, and money to raising their youngsters, ensuring 24/7 that they are happy, well-rounded, knowledgeable, sociable, and shielded from every danger. Parents in traditional societies think exactly the opposite! Grove coined this maxim:“Modern parents parent as much as possible. Traditional parents parent as little as possible.”The environments in which middle-class Americans live, and in which traditional families live, are different in multiple ways. But parents in both types of society want the same outcome for their offspring: that they will become productive, responsible adults. Comparing how traditional parents try to ensure that outcome, and how we Americans try to ensure it, yields thought-provoking insights. These prompt readers to step back and ponder issues such as (a) to what extent they could limit their tendency to “parent as much as possible”; (b) whether there’s another way to get their children to share family responsibilities; and (c) how effectively their children are learning to be productive adults, given that they rarely observe their parents and other adults completing productive work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning. To get started finding How Other Children Learn: What Five Traditional Societies Tell Us about Parenting and Children's Learning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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