title: Learning and Human Dignity Are Built Through Observation and Participation in Work.
abstract: This chapter focuses on how children learn through work in ongoing family and community endeavors in an Indigenous Mexican (Mixe) community, where cultural values emphasize that human dignity is derived from work and from collaboration with the work of other people, animals, and the natural world. The chapter highlights the central role that work plays in children's learning, and how attentive and more casual observation and accomplishment of endeavors are important tools that children employ in learning.
authors.forename: Rafael Cardoso
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Jiménez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003405:Creativity; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D009042:Motivation; D019368:Nature; D028723:Personhood; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D000067570:Social Learning; D058992:Social Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D012945:Social Values; D012951:Socialization; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Childhood; Collaboration; Creativity; Indigenous practices; LOPI; Learning; Mexico; Mixe; Nature; Observation; Work