Transfer of Knowledge and Children's Agency: Reconstructing the Paradigm of Socialization is a transcultural study of knowledge transmission. The essays deal with a wide variety of socialization contexts schools and youth culture, apprenticeship, ideals of youth and childhood from India, China, South-East Asia and Europe. They include examples from indigenous peoples, from particular occupational groups in traditional societies as well as youth in modern society. The knowledge transmitted spans from dance, painting or weaving to astrology, traditional medicine and business acumen, but these skills are everywhere framed by culturally specific conceptions of the person as differentiated by age, gender and ethnic identity or indeed of the ageing process itself.