ISBN:
9780805812237
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (452 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development
DDC:
303.3/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts take cultural diversity in development into account only as an addendum or as a special case--it is not integrated into a comprehensive theory or model of development. The purpose of this text is to redress this situation by enlisting insiders' and outsiders' perspectives on socialization and developm
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Independence and Interdependence as Developmental Scripts: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice; I. American Roots; 2 Maternal Behavior in a Mexican Community: The Changing Environments of Children; 3 Socializing Young Children in Mexican-American Families: An Intergenerational Perspective; 4 Intergroup Differences Among Native Americans in Socialization and Child Cognition: An Ethnogenetic Analysis; 5 Revaluing Native-American Concepts of Development and Education
Description / Table of Contents:
6 From Natal Culture to School Culture to Dominant Society Culture: Supporting Transitions for Pueblo Indian StudentsII. African Roots; 7 Socialization of Nso Children in the Bamenda Grassfields of Northwest Cameroon; 8 Language and Socialization of the Child in African Families Living in France; 9 Language Development and Socialization in Young African-American Children; 10 Children's Street Work in Urban Nigeria: Dilemma of Modernizing Tradition; III. Asian Roots; 11 Individualism, Collectivism, and Child Development: A Korean Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Mother and Child in Japanese Socialization: A Japan-U.S. Comparison13 Two Modes of Cognitive Socialization in Japan and the United States; 14 Cognitive Socialization in Confucian Heritage Cultures; 15 Moving Away From Stereotypes and Preconceptions: Students and Their Education in East Asia and the United States; 16 East-Asian Academic Success in the United States: Family, School, and Community Explanations; 17 Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Socialization of Asian-Originated Children: The Case of Japanese Americans; IV. Concluding Perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
18 From Cultural Differences to Differences in Cultural Frame of Reference19 Ecologically Valid Frameworks of Development: Accounting for Continuities and Discontinuities Across Contexts; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
