Firsthand Learning Through Intent Participation
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente · University of California, Santa Cruz · +2 more institutions
Abstract
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children from the full range of adult activities. However, in the past century some industrial societies have relied on a specialized form of instruction that seems to accompany segregation of children from adult settings, in which adults "transmit" information to children. We…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 116.83
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 131
Authors
5- BRBarbara RogoffCorresponding
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, University of California, Santa Cruz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- RPRuth Paradise
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, University of California, Santa Cruz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- RMRebeca Mejía‐Arauz
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, University of California, Santa Cruz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- MCMaricela Correa‐Chávez
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, University of California, Santa Cruz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- CACathy Angelillo
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, University of California, Santa Cruz, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Topics & keywords
- Active listening
- Psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Language acquisition
- Social psychology
- Communication
- Mathematics education
- Quality Education