Childhood and Adolescence Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Psychology » Social Psychology

Reviews:

• This book demonstrates that developmental psychology has come a long way from the assumed neutrality of "culture free." Everyone who reads this book will recognize the importance of contextualization. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice March 2005

Table of Contents:

• VOLUME ONE
• Foreword by T.S. Saraswathi
• Preface by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
• The Cross-Cultural Study of Children and Adolescents
• The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: An Opinionated Historical Introduction by Uwe P. Gielen
• Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood by Xinyin Chen and Violet Kaspar
• Child Care and Parenting
• Social Contexts of Weaning: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Studies by Hillary N. Fouts
• Challenging Expert Knowledge: Findings from an African Study of Infant Care and Development by 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 by Marc H. Bornstein, O. Maurice Haynes, Liliana Pascual, and Kathleen Painter
• Two Themes in Children's Lives: Gender Roles and Siblings
• Gender Roles in Childhood and Adolescence by Deborah L. Best
• Sibling Interactions by Ashley E. Maynard
• Adolescents in the Global Village
• Adolescents in the Developing World by Judith L. Gibbons
• Adolescence in the 21st Century: A Worldwide Survey by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors
  
• VOLUME TWO
• Foreword by T.S. Saraswathi
• Preface by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
• Worldwide Perspectives in Children and Adolescents
• All the Worlds Children: Global Demographic Trends and Economic Disparities by Oksana Chumachenko and Uwe P. Gielen
• Literacy Development in Global Perspective: A Research and Policy Approach by Daniel A. Wagner
• Difficult Adjustments
• The Changing Developmental Dynamics of Children in Particularly Difficult Circumstances: Some Examples of Street and War-Traumatized Children by Lewis Aptekar
• Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology by Thomas M. Achenbach
• The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the United States of America
• The Adaptation and Acculturation of Children from Immigrant Families by Andrew J. Fuligni
• Factors Tied to the Schooling of Children of English-speaking Caribbean Immigrants to the United States by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Pauline F. Bynoe, and Ronald Singh
• The Acquisition of English and Maintenance of Native Language by Immigrant Children and Adolescents in North America by Gisela Jia
• Epilogue
• Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: Following the Yellow Brick Road in Search of New Approaches for the 21st Century by Harry Gardiner
• Appendix: Human Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Selective Bibliography by Uwe P. Gielen
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors