Learning to be responsible: Young children transitions outside school

Ames, Patricia

doi:10.1016/j.lcsi.2013.04.002

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“…Children's positive view of pitching in to the family's work in our study challenges a pervasive assumption that the extent of children's household work in some communities is mainly determined by family economic necessity [see also Ames, 2013;Ochs & Izquierdo, 2009]. No child in our study cited family resources as a reason for children's contributions, and not a single child claimed that children should not be involved in family household work.…”

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confidence: 43%

“…In a Tzeltal Maya community of Mexico, children's early family work contributions are based on autonomous decisions to become involved and are seen by children as opportunities to become a productive mature person who contributes with initiative [Paoli, 2003]. In many Indigenous communities of the Americas, young children take initiative to engage in family work, and their contributions are welcomed even when their skills are incomplete because this eagerness to help is viewed as a sign of the child's maturation and motivation to contribute as a responsible member of the family [Ames, 2013;Gaskins, 1999;Rogoff, 1990].…”

Section: Children's Initiative In Contributing To the Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, children in a village of the high Andes of Peru feel pride as they learn the work of their community, being integrated in most aspects of life, along with the adults [Bolin, 2006; see also Ames, 2013;Mejía-Arauz, Keyser-Ohrt, & Correa-Chávez, in press;Paoli, 2003]. In keeping with these children's views, Latino adolescents in Los Angeles showed greater activation of reward regions of the brain when deciding to make costly financial contributions to the family, to the extent that their everyday help provided to the family was associated with role fulfillment, whereas European American teenagers showed greater activation of reward regions when receiving individual rewards than when contributing to their family [Fuligni & Telzer, 2013].…”

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“…Children observe and learn from ongoing work activities, contributing with initiative from a young age, and work Coppens /Alcalá /Mejía-Arauz /Rogoff is regarded as important for children's learning and development [Ames, 2013;Gaskins & Paradise, 2010;Paoli, 2003;Paradise & Rogoff, 2009;Rogoff et al, 2007;Urrieta, 2013]. A mother in the Indigenous-heritage community we studied explained that working provides her children with an opportunity to gain an orientation to learning and working that school does not provide.…”

Section: Cultural Values Related To Children's Family Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although we have been referring to children's contributions to the household as work , it may be that Indigenous-heritage children's contributions to household functioning should be thought of as mutual help instead; in a Nahua (Mexican) community, children and youth insisted that their contributions to family functioning were help, not work [Ramírez Sánchez, 2007; see also Ames, 2013;Robles, 2012]. The emphasis is not only on accomplishing tasks but on joining in mutual endeavors with others, to establish reciprocal relationships.…”

Section: Cultural Values Related To Children's Family Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Children's Initiative in Family Household Work in Mexico

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Children's views on their household work as mutual contribution within the family may encourage their initiative in pitching in. We asked 9- and 10-year-old children from a Mexican city how they viewed child participation in family household work. Almost all of the 16 children reported that children want to contribute to family household work, which they regarded as the shared responsibility of everyone in the family. However, the 8 children who lived in an Indigenous-heritage community were more often reported to take initiative to make broad and complex work contributions than children from a newly schooled community. The children in the Indigenous-heritage community more often emphasized their mutual coordination and collaboration with other members of the family, whereas children from the newly schooled community often focused on their personal contributions. We examine cultural values that may support children in viewing household work as part of being a responsible family member, and consider the possibility that these encourage children's development of initiative.

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Section: Children's Initiative In Contributing To the Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%