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Cultural Learning Redux.

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Tomasello, M
Published in: Child development
May 2016

M. Tomasello, A. Kruger, and H. Ratner (1993) proposed a theory of cultural learning comprising imitative learning, instructed learning, and collaborative learning. Empirical and theoretical advances in the past 20 years suggest modifications to the theory; for example, children do not just imitate but overimitate in order to identify and affiliate with others in their cultural group, children learn from pedagogy not just episodic facts but the generic structure of their cultural worlds, and children collaboratively co-construct with those in their culture normative rules for doing things. In all, human children do not just culturally learn useful instrumental activities and information, they conform to the normative expectations of the cultural group and even contribute themselves to the creation of such normative expectations.

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Child development

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EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

87

Issue

3

Start / End Page

643 / 653

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Behavior
  • Psychological Theory
  • Learning
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Culture
  • Child Development
  • Child
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education
 

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Tomasello, M. (2016). Cultural Learning Redux. Child Development, 87(3), 643–653. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12499
Tomasello, Michael. “Cultural Learning Redux.Child Development 87, no. 3 (May 2016): 643–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12499.
Tomasello M. Cultural Learning Redux. Child development. 2016 May;87(3):643–53.
Tomasello, Michael. “Cultural Learning Redux.Child Development, vol. 87, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 643–53. Epmc, doi:10.1111/cdev.12499.
Tomasello M. Cultural Learning Redux. Child development. 2016 May;87(3):643–653.
Journal cover image

Published In

Child development

DOI

EISSN

1467-8624

ISSN

0009-3920

Publication Date

May 2016

Volume

87

Issue

3

Start / End Page

643 / 653

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Behavior
  • Psychological Theory
  • Learning
  • Humans
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Culture
  • Child Development
  • Child
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education