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Record W4410237436 · doi:10.11647/obp.0440.02

2. A history of cross-cultural research on childhood learning

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410237436 on OpenAlex
Tanya Broesch

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEarly Childhood Education and Development
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCross-culturalPsychologyHistoryDevelopmental psychologyAnthropologySociology

Abstract

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This chapter reviews the history of cross-cultural childhood learning by describing the traditions, perspectives, methods, and philosophies that have shaped our field of research. We cover a broad range of topics, from developmental psychology, the history and traditions of different approaches and perspectives, contributions from evolutionary theory and archaeology, as well as noting the narrow framework of the western lens. We highlight the ways in which disciplines have come together to deepen our understanding of the nature of childhood learning. While we recognize the limitations of each approach and method, we focus our chapter on their unique as well as complementary contributions and how they have shaped the field today. This chapter can be construed as a roadmap of research on childhood learning, charting the history of the field.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.329
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.423
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it