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Learning from Others and Spontaneous Exploration: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
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Shneidman, Laura; Gweon, Hyowon; Schulz, Laura E.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Child Development, 2016
How does early social experience affect children's inferences and exploration? Following prior work on children's reasoning in pedagogical contexts, this study examined U.S. children with less experience in formal schooling and Yucatec Mayan children whose early social input is predominantly observational. In Experiment 1, U.S. 2-year-olds…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Inferences, Social Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Cultural Teaching: The Development of Teaching Skills in Maya Sibling Interactions.
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Maynard, Ashley E. – Child Development, 2002
Examined the development of teaching skills in older siblings responsible for teaching their younger siblings to become competent members of their culture among children from a Zinacantec Maya village in Chiapas, Mexico. Found that by age 4, children took responsibility for initiating teaching situations with their younger siblings, and by 8,…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries
The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children's Narratives.
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Miller, Kenneth E. – Child Development, 1996
Examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan children living in 2 refugee camps in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Found only minimal evidence of psychological trauma among the children and a positive relationship between children's mental health and the health status (physical and mental) of their mothers. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development