Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development
Subtitle: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226886640
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Children's Studies; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; General; Psychology; Child development; Congresses; Ethnicity in children; Research; Socialization; United States
Description: "Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life." "Discovering Successful Pathways includes new research on children and families across diverse cultural and socioeconomic settings in the United States. Chapters include 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 human development, education, and social welfare, and for professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities."--Jacket.