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Childhood and adolescence : cross-cultural perspectives and applications

Author: Uwe P Gielen; Jaipaul L Roopnarine
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Series: Advances in applied developmental psychology, no. 23
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Uwe P Gielen; Jaipaul L Roopnarine
ISBN: 1567506607 9781567506600 1567506615 9781567506617
OCLC Number: 54694645
Description: xxix, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Advances in applied developmental psychology, no. 23
Responsibility: edited by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine.

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