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'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village
How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.
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'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village
How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.
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'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

by Jing Xu
'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village

by Jing Xu

Overview

How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009416252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/31/2024
Series: New Departures in Anthropology
Pages: 290
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Jing Xu is an anthropologist at the University of Washington and the author of The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool (Stanford University Press, 2017). She pursues interdisciplinary research, bringing together humanistic and scientific perspectives to study how humans become moral persons.

Table of Contents

Introduction: learning morality in a Taiwan village; 1. Fieldwork beyond fieldwork: reconstructing an ethnography of children through historical fieldnotes; 2. Crime and punishment: parenting and the disobedient child; 3. Playful creatures: learning morality in peer play; 4. Gendered morality: naughty boys and fierce girls; 5. Care and rivalry: an untold tale of a sibling dyad; Epilogue: taking children seriously; Afterword.
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