Culture Acquisition: A Holistic Approach to Human LearningBloomsbury Academic, 23. lip 1989. - Broj stranica: 252 Challenging traditional orientations to the study of education and culture acquisition, the authors of this controversial work present a holistic, process-oriented method for examining culture transmission. A biologically based materialistic theory, cultural transmission is defined as a process in which individuals come to store pattern information in their brains . . . and hence come to act in socially complementary ways, thereby contributing to a culture's evolving adaptive pattern mappings. Their work defines the biological parameters of culture learning, reviews previous research on cultural transmission, conceptualizes, operationalizes, and tests a holistic, context-specific approach to learning culture and then illustrates its use. Dividing their work into two parts the authors first review the literature which is essential to the definition of a solidly grounded holism and to the development of an integrated theory. They then devote the second part of their work to the proposal of their systems based theory which describes the method by which 'active' learners come to see the whole of their culture. Their model is then operationalized by laying out a field research method and testing that method in a pilot study of three societies. Advanced students and scholars of anthropology as well as qualitative educational researchers will find Culture Acquisition invaluable reading. |
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Cultural Transmission and Culture Acquisition in a Korean | 9 |
Developmental Neurological and Informationprocessing | 22 |
Perspectives | 36 |
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Culture Acquisition: A Holistic Approach to Human Learning Maryann Pitman,Rivka A. Eisikovits,Marion Lundy Dobbert Pregled nije dostupan - 1989 |