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If you want to learn more about this David F. Lancy's book, The Anthropology of Childhood, is excellent. Very short version Children everywhere desperately wan
by barry-cotter 8y ago
If you want to learn more about this David F. Lancy's book, The Anthropology of Childhood, is excellent.
Very short version
Children everywhere desperately want to be helpful, to be productive members of society with a useful role. They learn what to do and how to do it with very, very little in the way of explicit instruction and for almost all skills in almost all societies none.
Schools and formal instruction are a product of literate societies and schooling, both teaching and learning are unnatural behaviours that absolutely have to be taught.
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- johnchristopher 8y ago> They learn what to do and how to do it with very, very little in the way of explicit instruction [..] > [..] both teaching and learning are unnatural behaviour that absolutely have to be taught. Something isn't right.
- barry-cotter 8y agoTeaching and learning in a classroom environment. Lessons. Children and people more generally learn by observation, making attempts at relatively simple tasks and increasing the range of tasks they’re competent at and can do well. Learning how to do things in practice with bugger all theory.
- johnchristopher 8y ago> Teaching and learning in a classroom environment. Lessons. My bad.