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BookmarkThree-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.
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In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S.
middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives.
What explains these marked differences in the capabilities of these children? Until recently, traditional understandings of human development held that a child's development is universal and that children have characteristics and skills that develop independently of cultural processes.
Barbara Rogoff argues, however, that human development must be understood as a cultural process, not simply a biological or psychological one.
Individuals develop as members of a community, and their development can only be fully understood by examining the practices and circumstances of their communities..
For more information about the title The Cultural Nature of Human Development, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
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