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Just Good Developmental Science: Trust, Identity, and Responsibility in Ethnic Minority Recruitment and Retention
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2016 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior Author(s): D. Rivas-Drake, T.C. Camacho, C. Guillaume Given the noted difficulty of recruiting and retaining ethnic and racial minority populations into various kinds of research endeavors (e.g., basic, prevention, intervention, health), they remain underrepresented and thus underserved by the research community as compared to other US groups. As developmental scientists, we often ask questions that imply longitudinal research designs, and thus, issues of attentiveness and responsiveness are paramount to the succe...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - January 26, 2016 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Eighteen Children's Participation in Ceremonial Life in Bali
We describe clear parallels in the role of observation and communication, the social organization of endeavors, and children's motivation to participate as they learn the music of gamelan (the traditional orchestra) that is used in religious ceremonies. (Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior)
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Seventeen Learning by Observing and Pitching In and the Connections to Native and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Publication date: 2015 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 49 Author(s): Luis Urrieta This chapter opens a broader dialogue of Learning by Observing and Pitching-In (LOPI) with Native and Indigenous Studies, and Native and Indigenous Education, drawing particular attention to how LOPI can provide a model for better understanding Indigenous pedagogy in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). As Battiste (2002) pointed out, “Indigenous pedagogy values a person's ability to learn independently by observing, listening, participating with a minimum of intervention and instruction.” Like LOPI, IKS inc...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Sixteen “My Teacher Is Going to Think They’re Crazy”
Publication date: 2015 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 49 Author(s): Jennifer Keys Adair This chapter explores how children and adults have been responding when they watch first graders in the United States using their agency in classrooms that value and permit children to Learn by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI). First, I explore how video-cued ethnography helped to capture on film practices in classrooms that support LOPI through the Agency and Young Children Project. Then, I detail what happened when I showed these films to first-grade (age 6–8) children of Latina/o immigrants, element...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Fifteen Using History to Analyze the Learning by Observing and Pitching In Practices of Contemporary Mesoamerican Societies
Publication date: 2015 Source:Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 49 Author(s): Rubén Flores, Luis Urrieta, Marie-Noëlle Chamoux, David Lorente Fernández, Angélica López The analysis of Indigenous learning practices in Mexico and the United States typically relies on ethnography, oral history, and participant observation as the methodology for understanding the socialization processes of Mesoamerican societies. In this chapter, we consider the importance of using historical analysis as an added methodology for understanding the Indigenous learning practices by considering three case studie...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - December 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Source Type: research