The goal of education is transformation of participation, which involves learning to collaborate, with appropriate demeanor and responsibility, as well as learning information and skills, to be responsible contributors belonging in the community.
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López, A., Rogoff, B., Nafaji, B., Mejía-Arauz, R. (in press). Collaboration and helpfulness as cultural practices [Colaboración y acomedirse como practicas culturales]. In J. Valsiner (Ed.),Handbook of Cultural Psychology, NY: Oxford University Press.
Lorente y Fernández, D. (2006). “Infancia Nahua y transmisión de la cosmovisión: los ahuaques o espíritus pluviales en la Sierra de Texcoco (México)”[Nahua childhood and the transmission of the cosmovision: the ahuaques or pluvial spirits in the highlands of Texcoco (Mexico)], Boletín de Antropología Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 20 (37), pp. 152-168.
Mejia Arauz, R., Rogoff, B., Dexter, A. D. L., & Najafi, B. (2007). Cultural variation in children’s social organization. Child Development, 78, 1001-1014.
Paradise, R., & De Haan, M. (2009). Responsibility and reciprocity: Social organization of Mazahua learning practices [Responsabilidad y reciprocidad: Organización social Mazahua en practicas de aprendizaje]. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 40(2), 187-204. Rogoff, B., Goodman Turkanis, C., & Bartlett, L. (2001). Learning together: Children and adults in a school community [Aprendiendo juntos: Niños y adultos en una comunidad escolar]. New York: Oxford University Press. |
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