Childhood and adolescence : cross-cultural perspectives and applications / edited by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine.
| Author/creator | Workshop on Childhood and Adolescence in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| Other author | Gielen, Uwe P. (Uwe Peter), 1940- |
| Other author | Roopnarine, Jaipaul L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004. |
| Description | xxix, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Advances in applied developmental psychology ; no. 23 Advances in applied developmental psychology (1993) ^A398514 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-457 and index. |
| LCCN | 2004042785 |
| ISBN | 1567506607 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1567506615 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF721 .W67 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |