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ERIC Number: EJ310937
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1984
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The Cognitive Consequences of Specific Experiences; Weaving versus Schooling among the Navajo.
Rogoff, Barbara; Gauvain, Mary
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, v15 n4 p453-75 Dec 1984
Reports on a study (of 79 Navajo women) that compared the predictiveness of two types of learning experience (schooling and weaving) for pattern continuation skills across varying domains and contexts. Questions the notion that what is learned in particular experiences automatically improves skills in general. (KH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Experiential Learning, Females, Generalization, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables, Skill Development, Transfer of Training
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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