title: Adults' Orientation of Children--And Children's Initiative to Pitch In--To Everyday Adult Activities in a Tsotsil Maya Community.
abstract: This chapter examines how 2-year-old children attempt to actively participate in adult work in a Mayan community in Chiapas, Mexico, and how adults contribute and accommodate to the contributions. As children enter into activities and adults orient and reorient the activity to direct the children, teaching from expert to novice is generated by children's agency in co-participatory interactions. The chapter enriches the LOPI model by focusing on the structure of participation and communication, social and community organization, and the evaluation that occurs in the activity itself.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH). Electronic address: maggieagle@yahoo.com.mx.
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez-Pérez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D007223:Infant; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D012933:Social Identification; D000067570:Social Learning; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D012951:Socialization
keywords: Agency; Communication; Culture; Early childhood; Everyday activities; Indigenous practices; Initiative; LOPI; Mexico; Motivation; Parent–child interaction; Participation framework