Rebeca Mejía‐arauz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3486463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebeca Mejía‐arauz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebeca |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejía‐arauz |
| SIGNATURE | ARAUZ R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5063-6694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conocimiento cultural de niños y niñas sobre el suicidio infantil, sus causas y su prevención
Objetivo. Identificar el conocimiento cultural del suicidio que tienen niños y niñas en la infancia media, cómo saben de ello, a qué causas lo atribuyen, las emociones asociadas y sus creencias para su prevención. Metodología. Se entrevistaron 59 niños y niñas urbanos entre 8 y 11 años de Guadalajara, México. Resultados. La mayoría de los niños y niñas conocía la palabra suicidio. Obtuvieron conocimiento de esta por medio de contenidos en Interne…
The key role of community in Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours ( El papel clave de la comunidad en Aprender por medio de Observar y Acomedirse en las actividades…
This article focuses on communities’ contributions to a way of learning that seems to be common in many Indigenous communities of the Americas and among people with heritage in such communities: Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (LOPI). We briefly contrast this with community contributions in Assembly-Line Instruction , a way of learning that is common in Western schooling, to highlight the distinct contribu…
Advances in understanding Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (Lopi). Introduction to the special issue ( Avances en la comprensión de Aprender por medio de Observ…
This article presents conceptual and empirical advances relating to Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (LOPI). The opening article offers a new version of the LOPI model and a focused analysis of the key role of community. The other nine articles provide evidence of the social organization of LOPI, based on an axiology of relationality , respect, reciprocity and pitching in, in many Indigenous communities of …
Etnoteorías parentales acerca de la educación escolar de los hijos
Objetivo. Identificar y analizar las etnoteorías sobre la educación de hijos e hijas en la infancia media, que tienen los padres de cinco grupos culturales. Metodología. La investigación es de corte cualitativo. Se entrevistaron 8 familias de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, México, acerca de sus concepciones, expectativas, valoración y políticas públicas sobre educación. Resultados. Se evidencia que las familias de los diferentes grupos soc…
Children’s Management of Attention as Cultural Practice
Measuring cultural aspects of teacher–child interactions to foster equitable developmental opportunities for young Latino children
Collaboration patterns among Mexican children in an Indigenous town and Mexican City
Children’s Contributions in Family Work: Two Cultural Paradigms
Children’s Contributions in Family Work: Two Cultural Paradigms
Collaborative Work or Individual Chores
A Cultural Paradigm—Learning by Observing and Pitching In
Children's Initiative in Contributions to Family Work in Indigenous-Heritage and Cosmopolitan Communities in Mexico
This article addresses cultural differences in children's initiative in helping in their home. Many 6- to 8-year-old children from an Indigenous-heritage community in Guadalajara, Mexico, were reported to engage, on their own initiative, in complex work for the benefit of the whole family (such as tending younger siblings, cooking, or running errands). In contrast, few children from a cosmopolitan community in Guadalajara, in which families had e…
Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In
This article argues that a generational approach focusing on changing constellations of cultural practices helps to understand culture. We contrast this approach with the “box approach,” which categorizes individuals by racial or ethnic ancestry. The article focuses on the survival, disappearance, and transformation of constellations of cultural practices related to Learning by Observing and Pitching In to activities of the family and community (…
Children's Initiative in Family Household Work in Mexico
Children's views on their household work as mutual contribution within the family may encourage their initiative in pitching in. We asked 9- and 10-year-old children from a Mexican city how they viewed child participation in family household work. Almost all of the 16 children reported that children want to contribute to family household work, which they regarded as the shared responsibility of everyone in the family. However, the 8 children who …
One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me! Adults Attempting Control versus Guiding in Support of Initiative
This article examines and contrasts two distinct patterns of assisting children's learning that relate to adults' participation in different cultural practices: strategies to control children's attention and motivation versus supportive guidance including children's initiative. We report case studies of the instructional approaches taken by 4 research assistants who were asked to follow a script to casually demonstrate how to make an object, leav…
How Important Is Teaching Phonemic Awareness to Children Learning to Read in Spanish
This comparative study examines relationships between phonemic awareness and Spanish reading skill acquisition among three groups of Spanish-speaking first and second graders: children in Mexico receiving reading instruction in Spanish and children in the United States receiving reading instruction in either Spanish or English. Children were tested on Spanish oral language and reading skills in fall and spring of Grades 1 and 2. Children in Mexic…
Cultural Variation in Balance of Nonverbal Conversation and Talk
This study examines cultural variation in the use of a balance of nonverbal conversation and talk for social coordination among children learning how to fold origami figures. Participants were 102 same-gender similar-age triads of first through third grade children from communities in México and California that varied in relation to Indigenous histories and experience with Western schooling (and related practices) across generations. Children fro…
Firsthand learning through intent participation
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and “listening-in” on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observationand listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children fro…
Mexican parents’ and teachers’ literacy perspectives and practices: Construction of cultural capital
This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy experiences of children in a working class and a middle class community included transgenerational communi…
Dialogue in the Classroom
There is increasing agreement among those who study classrooms that learning is likely to be most effective when students are actively involved in the dialogic coconstruction of meaning about topics that are of significance to them. This article reports the results of an extended collaborative action research project in which teachers attempted to create the conditions for such dialogue by adopting an inquiry approach to the curriculum. A quantit…
Cultural variation in children's observation during a demonstration
Ethnographic research indicates that in a number of cultural communities, children's learning is organised around observation of ongoing activities, contrasting with heavy use of explanation in formal schooling. The present research examined the extent to which first- to third-grade children observed an adult's demonstration of how to fold origami figures or observed the folding of two slightly older children who also were trying to make the figu…
Firsthand Learning Through Intent Participation
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children fr…
El desarrollo de la intersubjetividad y la colaboración
En este artículo se analiza el concepto de intersubjetividadcomo un proceso básico para la coordinación social y la comunicación, que se desarrolla con la participación en actividades productivas realizadas conjuntamente, en un marco significativo histórico y sociocultural. Se discute la idea de que los niños se involucran intersubjetivamente con otras personas desde edades muy tempranas, iniciándose así el desarrollo de la colaboración facilitad…
Firsthand Learning Through Intent Participation
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children fr…
Measuring cultural aspects of teacher–child interactions to foster equitable developmental opportunities for young Latino children
Mexican parents’ and teachers’ literacy perspectives and practices: Construction of cultural capital
This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy experiences of children in a working class and a middle class community included transgenerational communi…
How Important Is Teaching Phonemic Awareness to Children Learning to Read in Spanish
This comparative study examines relationships between phonemic awareness and Spanish reading skill acquisition among three groups of Spanish-speaking first and second graders: children in Mexico receiving reading instruction in Spanish and children in the United States receiving reading instruction in either Spanish or English. Children were tested on Spanish oral language and reading skills in fall and spring of Grades 1 and 2. Children in Mexic…
El desarrollo de la intersubjetividad y la colaboración
En este artículo se analiza el concepto de intersubjetividadcomo un proceso básico para la coordinación social y la comunicación, que se desarrolla con la participación en actividades productivas realizadas conjuntamente, en un marco significativo histórico y sociocultural. Se discute la idea de que los niños se involucran intersubjetivamente con otras personas desde edades muy tempranas, iniciándose así el desarrollo de la colaboración facilitad…
Firsthand Learning Through Intent Participation
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children fr…
Cultural variation in children's observation during a demonstration
Ethnographic research indicates that in a number of cultural communities, children's learning is organised around observation of ongoing activities, contrasting with heavy use of explanation in formal schooling. The present research examined the extent to which first- to third-grade children observed an adult's demonstration of how to fold origami figures or observed the folding of two slightly older children who also were trying to make the figu…
Dialogue in the Classroom
There is increasing agreement among those who study classrooms that learning is likely to be most effective when students are actively involved in the dialogic coconstruction of meaning about topics that are of significance to them. This article reports the results of an extended collaborative action research project in which teachers attempted to create the conditions for such dialogue by adopting an inquiry approach to the curriculum. A quantit…
Mexican parents’ and teachers’ literacy perspectives and practices: Construction of cultural capital
This article examines the relationships among the literacy practices engaged in by first-grade children and parents at home and the ways in which these practices are communicated, shaped, and fostered by teachers and administrators in two different sociocultural environments in urban Mexico. The differences observed between the home literacy experiences of children in a working class and a middle class community included transgenerational communi…
Cultural Variation in Balance of Nonverbal Conversation and Talk
This study examines cultural variation in the use of a balance of nonverbal conversation and talk for social coordination among children learning how to fold origami figures. Participants were 102 same-gender similar-age triads of first through third grade children from communities in México and California that varied in relation to Indigenous histories and experience with Western schooling (and related practices) across generations. Children fro…
Firsthand learning through intent participation
This article examines how people learn by actively observing and “listening-in” on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observationand listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural communities in which children are part of mature community activities. This intent participation also occurs in some settings (such as early language learning in the family) in communities that routinely segregate children fro…
Children's Initiative in Contributions to Family Work in Indigenous-Heritage and Cosmopolitan Communities in Mexico
This article addresses cultural differences in children's initiative in helping in their home. Many 6- to 8-year-old children from an Indigenous-heritage community in Guadalajara, Mexico, were reported to engage, on their own initiative, in complex work for the benefit of the whole family (such as tending younger siblings, cooking, or running errands). In contrast, few children from a cosmopolitan community in Guadalajara, in which families had e…
Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In
This article argues that a generational approach focusing on changing constellations of cultural practices helps to understand culture. We contrast this approach with the “box approach,” which categorizes individuals by racial or ethnic ancestry. The article focuses on the survival, disappearance, and transformation of constellations of cultural practices related to Learning by Observing and Pitching In to activities of the family and community (…
Children's Initiative in Family Household Work in Mexico
Children's views on their household work as mutual contribution within the family may encourage their initiative in pitching in. We asked 9- and 10-year-old children from a Mexican city how they viewed child participation in family household work. Almost all of the 16 children reported that children want to contribute to family household work, which they regarded as the shared responsibility of everyone in the family. However, the 8 children who …
One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me! Adults Attempting Control versus Guiding in Support of Initiative
This article examines and contrasts two distinct patterns of assisting children's learning that relate to adults' participation in different cultural practices: strategies to control children's attention and motivation versus supportive guidance including children's initiative. We report case studies of the instructional approaches taken by 4 research assistants who were asked to follow a script to casually demonstrate how to make an object, leav…
How Important Is Teaching Phonemic Awareness to Children Learning to Read in Spanish
This comparative study examines relationships between phonemic awareness and Spanish reading skill acquisition among three groups of Spanish-speaking first and second graders: children in Mexico receiving reading instruction in Spanish and children in the United States receiving reading instruction in either Spanish or English. Children were tested on Spanish oral language and reading skills in fall and spring of Grades 1 and 2. Children in Mexic…
Collaborative Work or Individual Chores
A Cultural Paradigm—Learning by Observing and Pitching In
Collaboration patterns among Mexican children in an Indigenous town and Mexican City
Children’s Contributions in Family Work: Two Cultural Paradigms
Children’s Contributions in Family Work: Two Cultural Paradigms
Measuring cultural aspects of teacher–child interactions to foster equitable developmental opportunities for young Latino children
Children’s Management of Attention as Cultural Practice
Etnoteorías parentales acerca de la educación escolar de los hijos
Objetivo. Identificar y analizar las etnoteorías sobre la educación de hijos e hijas en la infancia media, que tienen los padres de cinco grupos culturales. Metodología. La investigación es de corte cualitativo. Se entrevistaron 8 familias de la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara, México, acerca de sus concepciones, expectativas, valoración y políticas públicas sobre educación. Resultados. Se evidencia que las familias de los diferentes grupos soc…
Conocimiento cultural de niños y niñas sobre el suicidio infantil, sus causas y su prevención
Objetivo. Identificar el conocimiento cultural del suicidio que tienen niños y niñas en la infancia media, cómo saben de ello, a qué causas lo atribuyen, las emociones asociadas y sus creencias para su prevención. Metodología. Se entrevistaron 59 niños y niñas urbanos entre 8 y 11 años de Guadalajara, México. Resultados. La mayoría de los niños y niñas conocía la palabra suicidio. Obtuvieron conocimiento de esta por medio de contenidos en Interne…
The key role of community in Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours ( El papel clave de la comunidad en Aprender por medio de Observar y Acomedirse en las actividades…
This article focuses on communities’ contributions to a way of learning that seems to be common in many Indigenous communities of the Americas and among people with heritage in such communities: Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (LOPI). We briefly contrast this with community contributions in Assembly-Line Instruction , a way of learning that is common in Western schooling, to highlight the distinct contribu…
Advances in understanding Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (Lopi). Introduction to the special issue ( Avances en la comprensión de Aprender por medio de Observ…
This article presents conceptual and empirical advances relating to Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (LOPI). The opening article offers a new version of the LOPI model and a focused analysis of the key role of community. The other nine articles provide evidence of the social organization of LOPI, based on an axiology of relationality , respect, reciprocity and pitching in, in many Indigenous communities of …
Psychology (17 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)