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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
A window into different cultural worlds: Young children's everyday activities in the United States, Brazil, and Kenya
Child Development, Volume 77, No. 5, Year 2006
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Description
A powerful means to understand young children's normative development in context is to examine their everyday activities. The daily activities of 79 children (3 years old) were observed, for 20 hr each, in their usual settings. Children were selected from 4 cultural groups: European American and African American (Greensboro, United States), Luo (Kisumu, Kenya), and European descent (Porto Alegre, Brazil), evenly divided by social class. Examining children's naturally occurring engagement in school-relevant activities, both in and out of child care, revealed the importance of ecological context. The variation in activities was not explainable simply by cultural group (including race within the United States) or social class, but by the intersection of culture and class. The developmental implications of these findings are discussed. © 2006 by the Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tudge, Jonathan Richard Henry
United States, Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Doucet, Fabienne
United States, New York
New York University
Odero-Wanga, Dolphine
Kenya, Njoro
Egerton University
Sperb, Tania M.
Brazil, Campina Grande
Federal University
Piccinini, C. A.
Brazil, Campina Grande
Federal University
Lopes, Rita S.
Brazil, Campina Grande
Federal University
Statistics
Citations: 6
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00947.x
e-ISSN:
14678624
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Study Locations
Kenya