Emerging Learning Ecologies in Mayan Children Daily Lives
Emerging Learning Ecologies in Mayan Children Daily Lives

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade, researchers across multiple fields have examined how families structure their attentional ecologies in the social organization of everyday life (Brown 2012; Cekaite 2010; Chavajay, Rogoff 1999; Goodwin 2006: 515; Goodwin, Cekaite 2014, in press; Rogoff 2003; Tulbert, Goodwin 2011). In studying how families achieve joint attention in shared activities, directives are a central resource. Directives – utterances “designed to get someone else to do something” (Goodwin 2006: 515) – constitute a very basic way in which tasks and activities get organized and undertaken in everyday life. The present study documents how attention and perception are finely tuned in the moment-to-moment interactions where novices actively participate to become competent actors in the routine practices of their Mayan community.

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