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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 OpenAlexaff
Tanya Broesch

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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.007
Science and technology studies0.0040.012
Scholarly communication0.0070.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.003

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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