Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas - Some Next Steps
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Developmental effects of economic and educational change: cognitive representation in three generations across 43 years in a Maya community.
We studied the implications of social change for cognitive development in a Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico, over 43 years. The same procedures were used to collect data in 1969-1970, 1991, and 2012-once in each generation. The goal was to understand the implications of weaving, schooling and participation in a commercial economy for the development of visual pattern representation. In 2012, ...
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