Education and Learning During Social Situations Among the Central Kalahari San

摘要: Hunter-gatherer societies, including groups of the San, have occupied a particularly important place in research on child socialization. This is principally because features hunter-gatherer societies been associated with discussions about nature human rearing. However, few studies empirically analyzed education and learning that actually occur during everyday life San. To reconsider several premises underpinning most approaches to learning, I performed an interaction analysis mutual accommodation occurs while caregivers infants engage nursing “gymnastic” behaviors process by which children imitate each other singing/dancing activities among G|ui G||ana (Central Kalahari San) living Botswana. clarifies how participants interactions align affiliate culturally distinctive activities. These dynamics serve as foundation for inherent collaboratively organized sequences interactions, means experienced inexperienced people participate social situations, such those listed above. The approach adopted this paper also facilitates reconsideration individualistic perspectives ability.