Discovering Successful Pathways in Children′s Development – Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life (John D & C T Macarthur FNDTN Ser Mental Health/DEV MF) - Hardcover

Weisner, Thomas S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226886646 ISBN 13: 9780226886640

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas S. Weisner is professor of anthropology in the Center for Culture and Health (NPI/Department of Psychiatry), and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. He is coeditor of African Families and the Crisis of Social Change.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226886646
• ISBN 13: 9780226886640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368