Schooling, Local Knowledge and Working Memory: A Study among Three Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Societies
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Schooling, Local Knowledge and Working Memory: A Study among Three Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Societies.
Researchers have analysed whether school and local knowledge complement or substitute each other, but have paid less attention to whether those two learning models use different cognitive strategies. In this study, we use data collected among three contemporary hunter-gatherer societies with relatively low levels of exposure to schooling yet with high levels of local ecological knowledge to tes...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145265