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Maynard, Ashley E. – Child Development, 2002
Examined the development of teaching skills in older siblings responsible for teaching their younger siblings to become competent members of their culture among children from a Zinacantec Maya village in Chiapas, Mexico. Found that by age 4, children took responsibility for initiating teaching situations with their younger siblings, and by 8,…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries