106f. The Chore Curriculum

This recording is the sixth part of a multi-part episode on Professor David Lancy's book The Anthropology of Childhood. In this episode, we look at children learning through work, including questions such as: When do children start doing chores? What is their attitude to them? How does learning through chores tend to differ by gender? How do young people learn crafts? What are apprenticeships like? Why do they exist separately from the main body of craft learning? How similar are any of these learning situations to school? What ancient institutions might school have evolved from? Enjoy the episode.