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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.

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title Childhood and Adolescence Cross-cultural Perspectives and - photo 1
title:Childhood and Adolescence : Cross-cultural Perspectives and Applications Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology
author:Gielen, Uwe P.; Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.
publisher:Greenwood Publishing Group
isbn10 | asin:1567506607
print isbn13:9781567506600
ebook isbn13:9780313051371
language:English
subjectChild psychology--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses, Adolescent psychology--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses, Ethnopsychology--Congresses.
publication date:2004
lcc:BF721.W67 2000eb
ddc:155.4
subject:Child psychology--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses, Adolescent psychology--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses, Ethnopsychology--Congresses.

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Childhood and Adolescence

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Childhood and Adolescence

Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications

Edited by

Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine

Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, Number 23
Irving E. Sigel, Series Editor

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Workshop on - photo 2

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Workshop on Childhood and Adolescence in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2000 : New
York Academy of Sciences)
Childhood and adolescence : cross-cultural perspectives and applications / edited by
Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine.
p. cm.(Advances in applied developmental psychology ; no. 23)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1567506607 (alk. paper)ISBN 1567506615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Childhood psychologyCross-cultural studiesCongresses. 2. Adolescent
psychologyCross-cultural studiesCongresses. 3. EthnopsychologyCongresses.
I. Gielen, Uwe P. (Uwe Peter), 1940 II. Roopnarine, Jaipaul L. III. Title. IV. Series.
BF721.W67 2004
155.4dc22 2004042785

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright 2004 by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without
the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004042785

ISBN: 1-56750-660-7
1-56750-661-5 (pbk.)

First published in 2004

Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
www.praeger.com

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.481984).

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Contents

Foreword
T. S. Saraswathi

ix

Introduction
Uwe P. GielenandJaipaul Roopnarine

xiii

Part I
Worldwide Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence

The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: An Opinionated Historical Introduction
Uwe P. Gielen

Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood
Xinyin ChenandViolet Kaspar

All the Worlds Children: The Impact of Global Demographic Trends and Economic Disparities
Uwe P. GielenandOksana Chumachenko

Literacy Development in Global Perspective: A Research and Policy Approach
Daniel A. Wagner

Part II
Childcare and Parenting

Social Contexts of Weaning: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Studies
Hillary N. Fouts

Page vi

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,O. Maurice Haynes,Liliana Pascual, andKathleen M. Painter

Part III
Two Themes in Childrens Lives: Gender Roles and Siblings

Gender Roles in Childhood and Adolescence
Deborah L. Best

Sibling Interactions
Ashley E. Maynard

Part IV
Adolescents in the Global Village

Adolescents in the Developing World
Judith L. Gibbons

Adolescence in the Twenty-First Century: A Worldwide Survey
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Part V
The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the United States

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