2-020 - Children’s Collaboration with Families and Peers: Cultural Paradigms

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

This poster symposium focuses on cultural aspects of children’s taking initiative in collaboration, children learning to collaborate with peers, siblings, and adults, and the ways that families and communities support children learning culturally valued ways of collaborating. Results indicate that children from Indigenous-American-heritage and Mexican immigrant backgrounds are likely to be well equipped to learn through collaboration due in part to their inclusion as contributors in family and community endeavors.


The five posters build on a theoretical paradigm describing Learning by Observing and Pitching In in family and community endeavors (LOPI), which seems to be an especially prevalent approach to learning in many Indigenous-American, Mexican, and Mexican immigrant families where Western schooling has not been common (Rogoff, 2014; Rogoff, Alcalá, Coppens, López, Ruvalcaba, & Silva, 2014). Collaboration is a key part of LOPI, as children are included as contributors within the range of activities of the community.
The five studies examine the practices and values of Mayan, Mexican-heritage, Mestizo, Indigenous-heritage and European American families with varying cultural backgrounds and experience with Western schooling. The five papers address:

-Children’s contributions to family and community work
-Socialization practices and cultural values guide divergent trajectories of prosocial helping
-Cultural differences in children’s pair collaboration in computer programming
-Cultural differences in children’s collaboration
-Cultural differences in family interactions: Collaboration at a microscale

Sub Unit

• Family Context & Processes

Chairs

• Eva Itzel Aceves Azuara, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant

• Audun Dahl, University of California, Santa Cruz

Individual Presentations

• Children’s contributions to family and community work - Presenting Author: Lucia Alcala, California State University, Fullerton; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Socialization practices and cultural values guide divergent trajectories of prosocial helping - Presenting Author: Andrew D Coppens, University of New Hampshire; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Cultural differences in children’s pair collaboration in computer programming - Presenting Author: Omar Ruvalcaba, California State University, Northridge and University of California, Santa Cruz; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Cultural differences in children’s collaboration - Presenting Author: Angelica Lopez, Marymount California University and University of California, Santa Cruz; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Cultural differences in family interactions: Collaboration at a microscale - Presenting Author: Dayton Andrew, University of California, Santa Cruz; Eva Itzel Aceves Azuara, University of California, Santa Cruz; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz