Accounting for variability in mother-child play

By D. Lancy. 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “234 235 Lancy and Grove (2010) equate teaching with explicit or abstract verbal instruction, 236 which they claim is rare in non-Western societies.”
The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence. (2013, background): “However, many non-Anglo cultures do not share this view of pretend play’s importance, and perhaps as a result, children growing up in those cultures pretend much less (Gaskins & Goncu, 1992; Lancy, 2007).”
Child-Directed Speech Is Infrequent in a Forager-Farmer Population: A Time Allocation Study. (2019, unknown): “…or the recipients of speech with an interlocutor who is more engaged with other activities, which remains a poorer setting for learning than the situations often described in industrialized societies (see Lancy, 2007 for arguments that such learning situations are, in fact, cross-culturally rare).”
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “…that adult–child play and talk are less common among people in rural, subsistence communities, and when they take place, they usually do not follow the typical interactional script (e.g., exclusive, distal, dyadic exchanges) of Western lifestyle communities (Lancy, 2007; Paradise & Rogoff, 2009).”
Parenting (2015, background): “Touching, talking, and feeding—known to be variable among cultures and contexts according to the work of anthropologists, historians, and psychologists (Gottlieb & DeLoach, 2000; Keller, 2007; Lancy, 2007; LeVine, 2010; LeVine et al., 1994)—are no longer ends in themselves, but tools that parents ar”
Learning 'From Nobody': The Limited Role of Teaching in Folk Models of Children's Development (2010, unknown): “While adults do not participate in this play (Lancy 2007), they may enable it by giving the child cast-off tools and materials to use (Ruddle and Chesterfield 1977, 34) or by making ‘smaller-sized weapons, such as spears and blowpipes, for children to practice with’ (Puri 2005, 282).”