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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
International Bibliography on Crime and Delinquency
Author: Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development
Author: Thomas S. WeisnerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226886646
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods—the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.
Crime and Delinquency Abstracts
Author: National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Linking Community Factors and Individual Development
Author: Felton EarlsPublisher:
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Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood
Author: Catherine R. CooperPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135607060
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate on their way to adolescence and adulthood. This volume shines new light on this important transition by tracing how these contexts -- cultural, economic, historical, political, and social -- can support or undermine children's pathways, and how children's own actions and the actions of those around them shape these pathways. With a focus on demographic changes taking place in the U.S., the volume also maps how experiences of diversity, reflecting culture, ethnicity, gender, and social class, matter for children's life contexts and options. Chapters by a team of social scientists in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood present the fruits of ten years of research on these issues with diverse cultural and ethnic communities across the U.S. These include: *a set of models and measures that trace how contexts and diversity evolve and interact over time, with an epilogue that aligns and compares them; *surprising new findings, quantitative and qualitative, with cases showing how children and families shape and are affected by their individual, recreational, institutional, and cultural experiences; and *applications to policy and practice for diverse children and families. The importance of these new models, methods, findings, and applications is the topic of commentaries by distinguished scholars with both U.S. and international perspectives. The book is intended for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, as well as students in psychology, sociology, and education.
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: Michigan Roads and Pavements
Author: Diagnostic Factors and Their Use in Differential Foster Placement of Boys
Author: Lloyd J. CampbellPublisher:
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Category : Foster home care
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
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