Childhood and adolescence:cross-cultural perspectives and applications
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Praeger,
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Publisher Address: | Westport, Conn. |
Publication Dates: | 2004. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Advances in applied developmental psychology ; no. 23 |
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Online Access: |
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=125471 |
Carrier Form: | xxix, 470 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: | 0313051372 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | B844 |
CLC: | B844.1-532 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-457 and index. The cross-cultural study of human development : an opinionated historical introduction / Uwe P. Gielen -- Cross-cultural research on childhood / Xinyin Chen and Violet Kaspar -- All the world's children : the impact of global demographic trends and economic disparities / Uwe P. Gielen and Oksana Chumachenko -- Literacy development in global perspective : a research and policy approach / Daniel A. Wagner -- Social contexts of weaning : the importance of cross-cultural studies / Hillary N. Fouts -- Challenging expert knowledge : findings from an African study of infant care and development / Robert A. LeVine -- Competence and satisfaction in parenting young children : an ecological, multivariate comparison of expressions and sources of self-evaluation in the United States and Argentina / Marc H. Bornstein ... [et al.] -- Gender roles in childhood and adolescence / Deborah L. Best -- Sibling interactions / Ashley E. Maynard -- Adoelscents in the developing world / Judith L. Gibbons -- Adolescence in the twenty-first century : a worldwide survey / Jeffrey Jensen Arnett -- The adaptation and acculturation of children from immigrant families / Andrew J. Fuligni -- Factors tied to the schooling of children of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States / Jaipaul Roopnarine, Pauline F. Bynow, and Ronald Singh -- The acquisition of English and maintenance of first language by immigrant children and adolescents in North America / Gisela Jia -- The changing developmental dynamics of children in particularly difficult circumstances : examples of street and war-traumatized children / Lewis Aptekar -- Cross-cultural perspectives on developmental psychopathology / Thomas M. Achenbach -- Cross-cultural human development : following the yellow brick road in search of new approaches for the twenty-first century / Harry W. Gardiner. |