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Changing classes: school reform and the new economy
In: Learning in doing
The structure of moral action: a hermeneutic study of moral conflict
In: Contributions to human development 13
Review of Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello
In: Human development, Band 63, Heft 2, S. 139-142
ISSN: 1423-0054
Concealment and Uncovering in Moral Philosophy and Moral Practice
In: Human development, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 108-112
ISSN: 1423-0054
Communication in Early Infancy: Three Common Assumptions Examined and Found Inadequate
In: Human development, Band 26, Heft 5, S. 233-248
ISSN: 1423-0054
Evolution and Ontogenesis: The Deontic Niche of Human Development
In: Human development, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 175-211
ISSN: 1423-0054
We explore contemporary evolutionary perspectives on children's psychological development, questioning the view that high-fidelity, inter-individual transmission of information explains the cumulative character of human cultures, and children's ontogenesis within these cultures. We argue that humans construct an environmental niche that is unique in being composed of institutions, which function to coordinate activity over multiple time scales. Institutions involve not simply customs or conventions but a deontology of future-binding rights, responsibilities, duties, and obligations. The origins of institutions can be traced in hominin evolution to Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, where kinship, the first institution, made possible community support of an extended and demanding form of ontogenesis. Since the human environmental niche is an institutional reality, children today need to acquire the ability to understand and act effectively within institutions. We propose that this ability emerges not as an adaptation solely to past conditions but through differentiation and reintegration of an "extended ontogenetic system" of which the child is a constituent, leading to a quality of self-consciousness on the part of the child that makes possible the ability to live in an institutional reality.
Interculturality or Government of Childhood? Challenges of Indigenous Child Care in Colombia
A global phenomenon is the reorganization of care for very young children. Institutions are replacing the context of family and community. Increasingly in Colombia young children spend hours each day in institutions directed by public policy and administrative guidelines. We explore, first, how research on this phenomenon adopts a reductionist perspective, a focus on "quality" and "outcomes" measured in ways that assume a Western axiology. Second, we consider how the institutionalization of childhood amounts to a "government" that imposes Western individualism. Third, we illustrate the tension created for childcare professionals and for Indigenous communities as their rights to make decisions about the best ways to care for children are threatened.
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