The Dani’s warrior training mirrors modern guided mastery pedagogy
Evidence
Boys of the Dani underwent a graduated training program in learning how to be warriors that was remarkably close to the best of guided mastery programs for cultivating competencies (Bandura, 1997). The training included instructive modeling, skill perfection under simulated conditions, and a graduated transfer program in which youths exercised their newly acquired skills in progressively tougher scenarios. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 166
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Resonates with the complaint that cruelty is systematically ‘trained’ — same structure as boot camp or, inverted, the gradual desensitization literatures on moral disengagement generally.