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Guatemalan Mayan Children: A Comparative Analysis
In the first work-place, we made a comparison the attention and learning of 120 children from three art and learning backgrounds: Guatemalan Mayan children whose mothers had much experience with old and wise nearby practices and limited making open to middle-level Western ways; Mayan children from the same town whose mothers had more knowledgeable feeling with middle-level Western ways through much schooling and related does; and European american middle-level children whose families had much knowledgeable feeling with middle-level Western ways through schooling and related practices.This work-place gone into with care the attention and learning of 80 children

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