Discovering successful pathways in children's development
Subtitle: mixed methods in the study of childhood and family life
By: edited by Thomas S. Weisner.
Contributors: Weisner, Thomas S., 1943-
Series: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and human development; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Child development -- Research -- Congresses.; Socialization -- Research -- Congresses.; Ethnicity in children -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.; Immigrant children -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.; Children with social disabilities -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.; Home and school -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.; Educational anthropology -- Research -- Congresses.; Social ecology -- Research -- Congresses.; Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a conference.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: Using mixed methods to explore Latino children's literacy development / Claude Goldenberg, Ronald Gallimore and Leslie Reese; Working it out : the chronicle of a mixed-methods analysis / Heather B. Weiss ... [et al.]; Mixed methods, more justified conclusions : the case of the Abt evaluation of the Comer program in Detroit / Lois-ellin Datta; The ecology of children's racial coping : family, school and community influences / Deborah J. Johnson; Sites of belonging : acculturation, discrimination and ethnic identity among children of immigrants / Rubén G. Rumbaut; Taking culture seriously : making the social survey ethnographic / Tom Fricke; Combining ethnography and GIS technology to examine constructions of developmental opportunities in contexts of poverty and disability / Debra Skinner, Stephen Matthews and Linda Burton; Bullets don't got no name : consequences of fear in the ghetto / Jeffrey R. King, Jeffrey B. Liebman and Lawrence F. Katz; Qualitative/quantitative synergies in a random-assignment program evaluation / Christina M. Gibson-Davis and Greg J. Duncan; Entering the developmental niche : mixed methods in an intervention program for inner-city children / Sara Harkness ... [et al.]; Including Latino immigrant families, schools and community programs as research partners on the good path of life (El Buen Camino de la vida) / Catherine R. Cooper ... [et al.]; Civil rights and academic development : mixed methods and the task of ensuring educational equality / Mica Pollock; synthesis : a reprise on mixing methods / Jennifer C. Greene.