Available via license: CC BY 4. The main questions are how do Manggaraian people define a child in their culture? How do people divide the stages of child development? What do parenting styles develop by the people to Reviews their children? How are these different concepts and similar to the general psychological concept about children?
This paper was based on a qualitative research. The methods used were ethnography and grounded theory. Through mix Reviews These two approaches, the study is to explore and analyze the culture of Manggarai. The research found that: 1 the concept of a child in Manggarai depends on the way the people understand family and community rather than just understand a child as an individual.
One unique parenting style within the culture of Manggarai was to educate a child to "fear of spirits and ancestors". Published: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4. According to Vygotsky in Supardan , p. In spite of the similarities in the growth of a child is universal, cultures that make up a person with a distinctive character.
Culture also creates cognitive aspects where one might use tools and cultural habits to actualize themselves and their identity and to learn Supardan, , p. Culture is also affecting how parenting or parenting is done by one group of people. This paper describes how the people of West Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, define and position the child in their cultural community.
Manggarai is a community that has the characteristics: communal, patriarchal, agricultural, religious and mystical. This distinction affects how society defines who the child's stage of development and foster patterns. The main questions of this study are: how people define child Manggarai culturally and socially? How did the Manggarai divide the stages of child development?
