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Title: Ethno-Logic: A Cultural-Materialistic Interpretation of Human Learning. Darwinian Issues in Educational Anthropology.
Language: English
Authors: Burger, Henry G.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 43
Publication Date: 1988
Document Type: Opinion Papers
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Context, Educational Anthropology, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Environment, Environmental Influences, Ethnography, Ethnology, Experiential Learning, Learning, Observational Learning, Physical Environment, Role of Education, Sociocultural Patterns
Abstract: The application of cultural materialism, a Darwinistic approach to social forces, reveals that human learning is ultimately governed by the required process of human energy procurement. This "ethno-logic" interpretation of the correlation between techno-environmental levels and human learning stands in contrast to the conventional but mistaken view that education is controlled by ideology and politics. Humans are energy extractors, just like any other organism. The more efficient expand at the expense of the less efficient. Successful techno-environmental abilities ultimately control social organization, which in turn perceptualize people's outlooks and dominating ideology. Education in turn responds to the societal need by teaching the youth of that society to perpetuate or improve the ability of that society to extract the necessary energies from the environment. Hence, environment dominates learning. Examination of foraging, mining, hunting, horticultural, agricultural, and herding cultures demonstrates the various manners in which culture reflects environmental pressures, and how the resultant societal needs are met by an educational system that responds to that particular environment's demands. The document includes a 117-item reference list. (PPB)
Entry Date: 1989
Accession Number: ED306177
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