Barbara Rogoff: 4 books
Learning Together
Children and Adults in a School Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged...
Developing Destinies
A Mayan Midwife and Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years. At the same time, Chona developed new approaches to the care of pregnancy, newborns, and mothers based on her own experience...
by Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
Three-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. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class...
by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond...