Children of the Kibbutz

Spiro, Melford E.

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“…Zaslow (1980) found that individual group members were sought out äs early äs the end of the Ist year, and such closeness was influenced by sharing a room in the infants' house, mutual responsiveness, and close relations between parents. Spiro (1958) observed 10-month-old infants playing together so often that they seemed to be a subgroup within the large group and described the peer group äs a constant source of Stimulation äs well äs security. Winograd (1958) observed mutuality and empathy in the behavior of children much younger than the age at which such behaviors were assumed to be meaningful.…”

Section: Relations With Peersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, both Spiro (1958) and Bettelheim (1969) concluded that kibbutz children appeared to grow into well-functioning and adapted adults, despite early indications of emotional insecurity (Spiro, 1958) and some interference with the development of personal identity, emotional intimacy, and individual achievement (Bettelheim, 1969). Spiro (1958) observed, in an anthropological study, that kibbutz children often feit rejected by their caregivers and had to face aggression from their peers. Their emotional pain resulted in Introversion and resistance in their interpersonal contacts with kibbutz members and Outsiders.…”

Section: Classical Evaluations Of Kibbutz Child Rearingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The general impression of most early observers of kibbutz children was that their relations with their parents were warm and affectionate; however, the delegation of child-care functions to caregivers was judged to be a potential obstacle to the formation of exclusive relationships between mothers and infants and a potential impediment for future personality development (Bettelheim, 1969;Irvine, 1952;Spiro, 1958;Winograd, 1958). However, both Spiro (1958) and Bettelheim (1969) concluded that kibbutz children appeared to grow into well-functioning and adapted adults, despite early indications of emotional insecurity (Spiro, 1958) and some interference with the development of personal identity, emotional intimacy, and individual achievement (Bettelheim, 1969).…”

Section: Classical Evaluations Of Kibbutz Child Rearingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…ratory" for testing the consequences of child-rearing methods that derived from a unique philosophy and from practices markedly different from those used in the West (Beit-Hallahmi & Rabin, 1977;Bettelheim, 1969;Rapaport, 1958;Spiro, 1958).…”

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"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim.

Aviezer¹,

IJzendoorn²,

Sagi³

et al. 1994

Psychological Bulletin

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This article focuses on kibbutz care for infants and young children. It reviews (a) past and present practices of collective education within the context of its historical background and guiding principles and (b) the results of developmental research regarding the impact of multiple caregiving and group care on children's socioemotional development within the framework of attachment theory. The research results indicate that, from a psychological point of view, collective sleeping is a problematic aspect of kibbutz child rearing. However, group care and multiple caregiving of high quality do not necessarily interfere with the formation of close relationships between parents and children or with the development of social skills.An Israeli kibbutz (pl., kibbutzim) is a cooperative, democratically governed, multigenerational Community with an average population of 400-900 people. Each kibbutz is economically and socially autonomous but is also affiliated with one of three kibbutz organizations called "kibbutz movements" that offer support and guidance to individual kibbutzim. In the past, the kibbutz movements were deeply divided by political and ideological diiferences that were expressed even on the level of child-care practices. With the passage of time, however, most of these differences have lost their significance, and many kibbutz members today favor the idea of establishing a single united kibbutz movement. Every kibbutz member works for the kibbutz economy and is in turn provided by the Community with housing, food, clothing, health and educational Services, recreation, and other living needs. In the past, kibbutzim had been fairly isolated agricultural communities in which living conditions were exceedingly hard. Today kibbutz economies are based on adiversity of Industries and agricultural activities and are able to provide members with a satisfying Standard of living.The kibbutz is known äs being one of the very few utopian experiments that have succeeded in establishing a radically different way of living and of raising children. As many äs four generations have been brought up in kibbutzim since the first such communities were founded at the turn of the Century. The kibbutz child-rearing System, also called collective education, has been treated in the literature äs furnishing a "natural labo-

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Section: Relations With Peersmentioning

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Section: Classical Evaluations Of Kibbutz Child Rearingmentioning

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Section: Classical Evaluations Of Kibbutz Child Rearingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim.

Aviezer¹,

IJzendoorn²,

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et al. 1994

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Ethnographic studies have formed natural experiments that support Westermarck's hypothesis. For example, there are very few cases of sexual interaction between unrelated peers co-socialised since infancy in Kibbutzim, even though sexual relationships are not actively discouraged (Talmon, 1964;Rabin, 1965;Spiro, 1965;(Shepher, 1971). Studies of sim-pua marriages in China, in which future husbands and wives were raised together from childhood (effectively as siblings), indicate that sim-pua marriages are 250 percent more likely to end in divorce than marriages between partners who have not been raised together.…”

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Computer graphic studies of the role of facial similarity in judgements of attractiveness

Penton-Voak¹,

Perrett²,

Peirce³

1999

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The ‘Social Construction’ of David Schneider as ‘A Giant of Anthropology’

Shapiro

2020

Oceania

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David Schneider is widely regarded as one of the great anthropologists of our times. This article questions this opinion. First it shows that his fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap evidences ethnographic insensitivity, particularly on the matter of an alleged ignorance of physiological paternity, thus calling into question his supposed concern with getting at native understandings. The alleged ignorance forms the ethnographic basis for his later critique of established kinship studies. This, plus his ignorance of lexical marking, invalidates the critique. Even worse is his study of American kinship and its related theory of culture, both consisting mostly of top‐of‐the‐head impressions unrelated to specific operations.

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Children of the Kibbutz

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"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim.

"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim.

Computer graphic studies of the role of facial similarity in judgements of attractiveness

The ‘Social Construction’ of David Schneider as ‘A Giant of Anthropology’

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