CULTURE

How it influences children's development?

FACTORS
 Big part of how preschoolers develop is determined by the culture
they grow up in.

 Children growing up in different cultures receive specific inputs

from their environment.

 There’s a vast array of cultural differences in children’s beliefs and

behavior.
 Early exposure = self-image and identity
LET’S COMPARE
Western European and North Asian, African, Southern
American European and South American

 Children describe themselves  Children describe themselves

around their unique around their relationship with
characteristics others and social roles

 “I am smart”  “I am my parents’ child”

 “I am good at drawing”  “I am a good student”

TERMS OF MEMORIZATION
European-American Children Asian Children

 More detailed descriptions  Focused more on the people

they had met and how they
related to themselves.
 Recalled more specific events

 Stressed their preferences,

feelings and opinions about it
CULTURAL EFFECTS OF PARENTING
European-American Children Korean and Chinese Children

 Long,elaborative, self-focused  Brief, relation-oriented, and

narratives emphasizing personal show a great concern with
preferences and autonomy
authority

 Interactionstyle tends to be
 More passive role in the
conversations
reciprocal, taking turns in
talking
 Teachers may need to assess children who come from a variety of
cultural backgrounds.

 Knowing how children coming from a different culture think and

talk differently can help the teacher better interview them.
 Discipline is good as long as it is not too much!
 Giving autonomy is also good as long as it is not too much!
 Every race has different culture when it comes to raising
their child.
 Asa parent in the future, what actions will you do for
your children to become a well-rounded?
Think about it!