Early Child Development in the 21st Century: Profiles of Current Research Initiatives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807743372 ISBN 13: 9780807743379

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2003

Synopsis

This single-volume resource provides detailed information on current large-scale and longitudinal research studies focusing on early childhood development - the situations and experiences of young American children. Twenty-eight studies are profiled, addressing such issues as early childhood interventions for children in poverty, neighborhood characteristics and residence patterns of children and their families, the role of fathers in families, school readiness and the transition to school, and maternal employment issues, including child care and welfare reform.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Allison Sidle Fuligni is a Research Scientist at the UCLA Center for the Improvement of Child Care Quality. Lisa J. Berlin is a Research Scholar at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807743372
• ISBN 13: 9780807743379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Brooks-Gunn Jeanne, Fuligni Allison Sidle, Berlin Lisa