ABSTRACT
One of the characteristics that distinguishes human beings from most animals, according to Bruner, is that they learn. Moreover, Bruner (1972) explained that human children are bom immature but discover the bases of their culture through education. This education itself depends on interactions with children of the same age or, and this is more important, on interactions with older children and with adults (parents, teachers, …). All these interactions require some means of communication to enable young children to both explore their neighborhood and discover the regularities of their environment. These regularities must be discovered and sorted by the children who are constructing their own universe by taking into account the surrounding culture: the children will thus use the same pattern as their parents. This process requires good “communication” between the children and their elders. Bernstein, Brandeis, & Henderson (1969), Cordier (1975), and others showed that “poor communication” between young children and their closest adult models is associated with poor affective development and usually results in poor cognitive and behavioral development.
