Distinguished authors detail cross-cultural issues affecting youngsters, including parenting practices, gender role socialization, risk and resilience in childhood, and more. The text challenges existing beliefs about childhood development, offers current research on childrearing and socialization practices in diverse cultures, and examines social and educational policies as they relate to children and adolescents. Socialization practices within families, communities, and educational settings are included.
This volume, which includes both field-based and experimental research, will appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students in the fields of child psychology, cross-cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, child and family studies, and social work.
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
Reviews
This collection presents an overview of recent research by psychologists and anthropologists concerning child and adolescent development across cultures. The contributors address such topics as worldwide changes in children's lives, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, gender roles and adolescence in industrialized and developing nations.—Reference & Research Book News
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
