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Sophisticated collaboration is common among Mexican-heritage US children.


ABSTRACT: In light of calls for improving people's skill in collaboration, this paper examines strengths in processes of collaboration of Mexican immigrant children. Sibling pairs (6-10 years old) in California were asked to collaborate in planning the shortest route through a model grocery store. On average, 14 sibling pairs with Mexican Indigenous-heritage backgrounds engaged together collaboratively as an ensemble, making decisions in common and fluidly building on each other's ideas, more often than 16 middle-class European American sibling pairs, who on average more often divided decision making into a solo activity (often ignoring the other or simply bossing the other). Siblings who spent more time collaborating fluidly as an ensemble in the shared planning task were also more likely to collaborate with initiative at home, according to their mothers, which suggests that family socialization practices may contribute to cultural differences in collaboration.

SUBMITTER: Alcala L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233073 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sophisticated collaboration is common among Mexican-heritage US children.

Alcalá Lucía L   Rogoff Barbara B   López Fraire Angélica A  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181101 45


In light of calls for improving people's skill in collaboration, this paper examines strengths in processes of collaboration of Mexican immigrant children. Sibling pairs (6-10 years old) in California were asked to collaborate in planning the shortest route through a model grocery store. On average, 14 sibling pairs with Mexican Indigenous-heritage backgrounds engaged together collaboratively as an ensemble, making decisions in common and fluidly building on each other's ideas, more often than 1  ...[more]

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