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Children's Learning to Be Vernacular Architects: Yucatec Maya Theory behind LOPI (Cómo aprenden los niños mayas a ser arquitectos vernáculos: la teoría maya yucateca detrás de LOPI)
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Cervera-Montejano, María-Dolores – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Yucatec Maya theory of learning may be thought of as Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours. Children learn everyday and specialized tasks by observing and pitching in. This mode of learning is embedded in children's developmental niche in which parental ethnotheories play the central role. I present results from…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Learning Processes, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Seeing for the Purpose of Learning and Doing among the Nahua in Northern Puebla, Mexico (Ver para saber y hacer entre los nahuas del norte de Puebla, México)
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Chamoux, Marie-Noëlle – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
In Nahuatl-speaking villages located in the north of the state of Puebla, family and community educational practices adhere to the Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours model (LOPI). Attentive observation is encouraged as children's principal method of learning. Co-presence is favoured by the adult educators as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, Learning Processes, American Indian Education