ISBN:
9780199943920
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.231
Keywords:
Child development
;
Child psychology
;
Children -- Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Societal Contexts of Child Development provides comprehensive literature reviews for six broad contextual influences on children's development and addresses these contexts from an applied research perspective.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION: Contextualizing Child Development -- SECTION I: Gender as a Shaping Context -- 1. Gender Development: From Universality to Individuality -- 2. Gender and Achievement Choices -- SECTION II: Child Care: An Early Contextual Opportunity -- 3. Women's Work and Child Care: Perspectives and Prospects -- 4. Issues of Quality and Access Emerging from the Changing Early Childhood Policy Context: Toward the Next Generation of Research -- SECTION III: Cultural Contexts and Immigrant Families -- 5. An Ecological Approach to Understanding Immigrant Child and Adolescent Developmental Competencies -- 6. Beyond Families and Schools: Future Directions in Practice and Policy for Children in Immigrant Families -- SECTION IV: Child Poverty as a Limiting Context of Development -- 7. Poverty and Children's Development: Familial Processes as Mediating Influences -- 8. The World Isn't Linear or Additive or Decontextualized: Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Understanding the Effects of Antipoverty Programs on Children and Parenting -- SECTION V: Schools and Neighborhoods: The Microcosms of Childhood -- 9. Neighborhood and School Contexts in the Lives of Children -- 10. School- and Neighborhood-Based Interventions to Improve the Lives of Disadvantaged Children -- SECTION VI: Development in the Context of Omnipresent Media -- 11. Children and Electronic Media -- 12. Language, Literacy, and Media: What's the Word on Sesame Street? -- SECTION VII: Programs and Policies as Contextual Opportunities for Improving Children's Lives -- 13. Connecting Research and Practice -- Epilogue: The Ecology of Human Development in the 21st Century -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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