Cultural Processes in Child Development

This volume explores cultural issues in child development, which have come to be considered primary cross-cutting factors in every aspect of development. For cross-cultural, social, and developmental psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.

Autorentext

Ann S. Masten

Zusammenfassung
The chapters of this volume were originally presented at the 29th Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology. The focus of this symposium on cultural processes in child development emerged from the growing recognition among those at the Institute of Child Development and many others in the field that more needs to be known about the processes linking individual development and the contexts in which it occurs, and that this is no longer a luxury but essential for good science and good policy in an increasingly interconnected and pluralistic world. The chapter authors in this volume chronicle the challenges as well as the benefits of venturing out to the growing edge of theory and research concerned with how cultures and individuals interact to shape development. These investigators have wrested with the complexities of figuring out the assumptions, beliefs, values, and rules by which people conceptualize their lives and rear their children, organize their societies, and educate the next generation. As a whole, this volume reflects the beginnings of a &quote;cultural renaissance&quote; in developmental science.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface. C.G. Coll, K. Magnuson, Cultural Influences on Child Development: Are We Ready for a Paradigm Shift? C.R. Cooper, Multiple Selves, Multiple Worlds: Cultural Perspectives on Individuality and Connectedness in Adolescent Development. S.B. Heath, Dimensions of Language Development: Lessons From Older Children. L.M. Burton, T. Price-Spratlen, Through the Eyes of Children: An Ethnographic Perspective on Neighborhoods and Child Development. E.H. Durbrow, Cultural Processes in Child Competence: How Rural Caribbean Parents Evaluate Their Children. V.C. McLoyd, Cultural Influences in a Multicultural Society: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. R.A. Shweder, Culture and Development in Our Poststructural Age.