The theory that children’s social and physical environment set the stage for comprehending developmental outcomes and processes was proposed by Super and Harkness (1999). This theory explains that customs and cultural beliefs give information that form the basis for constructing …show more content…
Mothers may teach the child to play a different way from her childhood learning. The way we interpret child’s play varies from culture to culture. For example, In Asia, play and academic activities is seen sepereate form each other. Whereas, in Italy there is very little distinction between other activities and play and they strongly place emphasis on social interaction in child’s play. Also, Western parent focus on separateness and self assertion whereas Asian parents place emphasis on peaceful interdependence. Therefore in the West the self is defined solely to the individual and in the East, self is defined in relation to the social groups (Chen,