Child Development in Cultural Context Series – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Child Development in Cultural Context Series. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
9 produkter
The Culture of Child Care
Attachment, Peers, and Quality in Diverse Communities
Av Kay E. Sanders, Alison Wishard Guerra
Inbunden, 2016
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As societies are experiencing increasing levels of immigration from contexts outside of the Western, industrialized world, child care programs are experiencing, simultaneously, increasing diversity in enrollment. A question that has been raised by early childhood advocates and practitioners is …
Literacy and Mothering
How Women's Schooling Changes the Lives of the World's Children
Av Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays …
Disability, Stigmatization, and Children's Developing Selves
Insights from Educators in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S.
Av Misa Kayama, Wendy Haight m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
977 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspectives of educators practicing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Synthesizing research that spanned over a decade, this volume seeks …
Immigrant Stories
Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood
Av COLL, Cynthia Garcia Coll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
994 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Immigrant Stories portrays the contexts and academic trajectories of development of three unique immigrant groups: Cambodian, Dominican and Portuguese. The children of immigrant families - or second generation youth - are the fastest growing population of school children in the US. However, very …
Perfectly Prep
Gender Extremes at a New England Prep School
Inbunden, 2008
1137 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Although New England boarding schools have been educating America's elite for four generations, they, along with their privileged students, rarely have been the subject of study. Living in a senior boys' dorm at a co-ed school, Sarah Chase was able to witness the inner workings of student culture …
Literacy and Mothering
How Women's Schooling Changes the Lives of the World's Children
Av Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1563 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays …
Developing Destinies
A Mayan Midwife and Town
Inbunden, 2011
923 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years. At the same time, Chona developed new approaches to the care of pregnancy, newborns, and mothers based on her own …
In A Younger Voice
Doing Child-Centered Qualitative Research
Inbunden, 2010
1101 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Adults were once children, yet a generational gap can present itself when grown-ups seek to know children's lives, in research. In A Younger Voice discloses how qualitative research, tailored to be child-centered, can shrink the gap of generational unintelligibility. The volume invites and …
Self-Esteem in Time and Place
How American Families Imagine, Enact, and Personalize a Cultural Ideal
Av Peggy J. Miller, Grace E. Cho
Inbunden, 2017
1068 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of childrearing: images and references to self-esteem are ubiquitous in academic, educational, and popular media. Yet, until now, little has been known about …
