From Beyond Culture
Citing Washburn (1973) on the importance of play in learning
“Through play (emotional, repetitious, from within) children prepare for the adult life of their culture. Separation of education from life…is new in the history of primates. In the American school there is no view of adult life…In schools discipline is substituted for the internal [...]
Categories: anthropology, education, psychology
Tagged: anthropology, bureaucracy, culture, education, edward t hall, learning, psychology
- Published:
- July 20, 2009 – 9:05 pm
- Author:
- By Adam
I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology
- Published:
- July 17, 2009 – 3:45 pm
- Author:
- By Adam