Bang Megan, Marin Ananda, Medin Douglas, Washinawatok Karen
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2015;49:303-13. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2015.10.004. Epub 2015 Nov 18.
This chapter describes a central tenet of Indigenous American social interaction, which emphasizes mutuality in collaboration and caring in Indigenous communities. This includes interactions with an agentive natural world, in which more-than-human beings act as participants in the lives of humans and vice versa. We argue that research on children's learning should take a broader view of interactional partners to include the natural world.