Learning 'From Nobody': The Limited Role of Teaching in Folk Models of Children's Development

By D. Lancy. 2010

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Citations in the corpus

• Is Non-Conformity WEIRD? Cultural Variation in Adults’ Beliefs About Children’s Competency and Conformity (2017, unknown): “) and American parents and caregivers, particularly those from middle and high socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, socialize children to be creative and innovate at home, in schools, and in recreational activities (Harkness et al., 2007; Kim, 1994; Lancy, 2010; Suizzo, 2007).”
• How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “Some ethnographers (Lancy 2010; Paradise & Rogoff 2009) have noted little vertical teaching (parent to offspring); however, the application of evolutionary theory to cultural transmission in non-industrialized cultures predicts vertical and oblique (non-family adult to child) teaching.”
• How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Social and Gender Norms? A Meta-Ethnographic Review (2018, background): “Lancy (2010) defines teaching as “the active and systematic intervention of a teacher whose goal is to change the behaviour of a learner” (p. 1), leading him to conclude that teaching is absent in the small-scale societies he studied.”
• Teaching Is a Natural Cognitive Ability for Humans (2012, background): “As far as we know, there are only two anthropologists, Fiske (n.d.) and Lancy (2010), who believe that there are hunting and gathering societies that have no teaching whatsoever.”
• Teaching in Hunter-Gatherers (2018, background): “Some take the term Bteaching^ to refer only to Western-style formal education, with lessons and a strictly formal teaching context (Lancy 2010, 2016; K. MacDonald 2007).”
• Agency and Expanding Capabilities in Early Grade Classrooms: What it Could Mean for Young Children (2014, background): “Anthropologists and some cultural psychologists show that agency (manifested in a variety of ways) is critical to children’s learning processes (Anderson-Levitt, 2002; Cheney, 2011; Lancy, 2010; Rogoff, 2003; Tobin, 2005) because children learn through observation, participation, and initiative and ”