TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching is a natural cognitive ability for humans
AU - Strauss, Sidney
AU - Ziv, Margalit
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Wesuggest that a multidisciplinary approach to teaching has potential to widen its scope. In that vein, we revisit our original claim that teaching is a natural cognitive ability among humans. We elaborate on three requirements for such an ability and report that, first, teaching strategies may be developmentally reliable. Findings indicate a possible normative developmental trajectory from age one year through adulthood. Second, teaching seems to be species-typical, that is, it is a universal human achievement. Third, human teaching with a theory of mind (ToM) is species-unique. Nonhumananimals may teach without a ToM.
AB - Wesuggest that a multidisciplinary approach to teaching has potential to widen its scope. In that vein, we revisit our original claim that teaching is a natural cognitive ability among humans. We elaborate on three requirements for such an ability and report that, first, teaching strategies may be developmentally reliable. Findings indicate a possible normative developmental trajectory from age one year through adulthood. Second, teaching seems to be species-typical, that is, it is a universal human achievement. Third, human teaching with a theory of mind (ToM) is species-unique. Nonhumananimals may teach without a ToM.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873249985&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1751-228X.2012.01156.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1751-228X.2012.01156.x
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AN - SCOPUS:84873249985
SN - 1751-2271
VL - 6
SP - 186
EP - 196
JO - Mind, Brain, and Education
JF - Mind, Brain, and Education
IS - 4
ER -