Background
Eisikovits, Rivka Anne was born on August 8, 1946 in Satu-Mare, Transylv., Romania. Arrived in Israel, 1958. United States permanent resident.
Daughter of Jenö and Borbala Friedmann.
( Challenging traditional orientations to the study of ed...)
Challenging traditional orientations to the study of education and culture acquisition, the authors of this controversial work present a holistic, process-oriented method for examining culture transmission. A biologically based materialistic theory, cultural transmission is defined as a process in which individuals come to store pattern information in their brains . . . and hence come to act in socially complementary ways, thereby contributing to a culture's evolving adaptive pattern mappings. Their work defines the biological parameters of culture learning, reviews previous research on cultural transmission, conceptualizes, operationalizes, and tests a holistic, context-specific approach to learning culture and then illustrates its use. Dividing their work into two parts the authors first review the literature which is essential to the definition of a solidly grounded holism and to the development of an integrated theory. They then devote the second part of their work to the proposal of their systems based theory which describes the method by which 'active' learners come to see the whole of their culture. Their model is then operationalized by laying out a field research method and testing that method in a pilot study of three societies. Advanced students and scholars of anthropology as well as qualitative educational researchers will find Culture Acquisition invaluable reading. Reflecting the truly collaborative nature of the authors' work, this book has an overall additive structure. Chapters one through four review primate learning, examine neurological data and information processing in humans, review developmental theory and research on aging, and identify critical junctures in the study of cultural transmission. Chapters five through eight pose the theoretical model, present a field guide based on a broadly holistic approach, describe a test of the method, report on three analytic experiments exploring the potential of the model, and devise a coding system for comparative culture acquisition research. In their final chapters the authors illustrate the extent to which their theory can be applied by individual anthropologists to their own areas of research.
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Eisikovits, Rivka Anne was born on August 8, 1946 in Satu-Mare, Transylv., Romania. Arrived in Israel, 1958. United States permanent resident.
Daughter of Jenö and Borbala Friedmann.
Bachelor in English and French Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970. Certified secondary teacher, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970. Master of Arts English and Comparative Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Anthropology, University Minnesota, 1978.
Teaching associate department English as Second Language, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1975-1976, teaching and research assistant department social and philosophical foundations education, 1975-1977. Lecturer department education Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel, 1977-1978. Lecturer School Education and Social Work, University Haifa, Israel, 1978-1983, senior lecturer Israel, 1983-1996, head Laboratory Study of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Learning Israel, since 1987, associate professor Faculty of Education, Israel, since 1996.
Visiting research professor Center Development Disabilities, University Vermont, Burlington, 1993-1994. Consultant Family Counseling Services, Haifa. Member academy advisory board Pedagog.
Secretary, Ministry of Education. Research reviewer German Israeli Foundation. Presenter and lecturer in field.
( Challenging traditional orientations to the study of ed...)
Fellow American Anthropological Association, Society Applied Anthropology (conference organizer 1981-1985). Member Anthropological Association Israel, Israel Educational Research Association (chair science program 10th conference 1993), Israel Residential Education Research Association, Israel Comparative Education Research Association.
Married Zvi Eisikovits, February 11, 1968. 1 child, Nir.