The cultural nature of human development by barbara rogoff pdf

ISBN Barbara Rogoff, who is a well-known researcher in the sociocultural tradition, has written a comprehensive book on the theme that individuals develop as they participate in their communities. The book certainly has a different feel about it compared with other broadly- based developmental publications.

While dealing with issues of child rearing, social relations, autonomy gender roles, transitions, attachment, learning and cognitive development, it draws on specific studies from across different cultural backgrounds, to make the point that culture matters.

In this it succeeds — with the assistance of an interesting range of black and white photographs of developmental contexts from different cultures at different historical periods. The book is organized into nine chapters, each of which consists of sections that deal with specific aspects of each topic. The first chapter introduces the orienting concepts of a cultural way of understanding human development. This leads into the second chapter which specifically explains the view of development as a transformation of participation in cultural activities.

In the third chapter the theoretical model is explained further in terms of humans being biologically cultural. What the cultural perspective means is explained in terms of opposing this model to one that sees culture as a property of an individual more about this later.

It is by the fourth chapter that she starts to consider specific development aspects such as child rearing in families and communities — attachment, role specialization, and age segregation.

The fifth chapter covers aspects of transitions — milestones, the social status of infants, responsibility in childhood, adolescence and gender roles.

In Chapter 6, she deals with the broad questions of autonomy and interdependence — in this she covers questions of adult-child cooperation, discipline, independence versus interdependence with autonomy and cooperation and competition. In Chapter 7, she focuses on thinking with tools in a cultural context.

In this she traces the research which questions the cultural-bounded nature of assumptions about general abilities, starting with critiques of original Piagetian assumptions about cognitive development. The role of schooling in forming assumptions about the nature of abilities is examined and how this reminds us of the cultural bases for concepts of intelligence and human abilities.

Rogoff also gives an account of the origins of this tradition in the work of Vygotsky, including his emphasis on the role of cultural tools for thinking. The book is completed in the ninth chapter with an examination of cultural change and change among multiple communities. At the end of this chapter she revisits the key orienting concepts that she introduced at the start of the book. Without doubt, this adds considerably to our understanding — going well beyond the limited tendency in some other schools of developmental psychology, which often imply that findings from Western samples apply in other cultural and historical contexts.

In discussing how researchers move between local and global understandings, Rogoff considers the relation between insider and outsider perspectives and revisits the distinction between etic and emic approaches in cultural studies. In many ways her points about ethnocentrism have almost become orthodox, so we need to question what else Rogoff is adding in her book.

This is to be found in the second chapter where she starts to explain her philosophical positions about the relation between the individual and culture. Here, she begins to articulate the sociocultural critique of the idea that individuals are separate entities from cultural processes.

Rogoff examines the ideas of the Whitings and Bronfenbrenner about the cultural and ecological nature of psychological development, but is ultimately critical of them for treating the individual and culture as separate entities. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Necessary Necessary.

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The cookie is used for targeting and advertising purposes. DSID 1 hour This cookie is setup by doubleclick. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 give detailed insights into many different child-rearing practices and how these practices make sense in terms of the communities in which they are found. Learning to think and learning various skills are the topics of chapters 7 and 8. Cultural tools for thinking, like literacy and mathematics in the Western world, were developed in conjunction with practices and affordances in the respective cultures.

Non-Western communities have different cultural tools, which codify local knowl- edge: taxonomies for classification of plants and animals, navigational tools, and narrative structures specifically adapted to oral tradition. Experts guide participating novices by trying to bridge the different perspectives they each bring to the situation or by structuring their participation for them. The wealth of ethnographic examples given in each chapter makes the book valuable to anthropologists and non-anthropologists alike.

Within the various fields informed by this book, it is suitable in graduate as well as undergraduate courses. Ruth Spack. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, On the other, recent work such as K. The first half of the book focuses on the course of the monoglot standard in the late 19th century and the complex and multilayered history of linguistic and educational policies in Native American communities. Here Spack explores a rather complicated debate, sparked by foreign immigra- tion and not pedagogy, between missionaries, educators, and representatives of the army and the federal government that put at issue whether bilingual education or English-only was the.