Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family LifeThomas S. Weisner University of Chicago Press, 15/02/2005 - 443 páginas 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. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Part I Pathways through Classrooms Schoolsand Neighborhoods | 19 |
Part II Ethnicity and the Development of Ethnic Identity in Childhood | 85 |
Part III Culture and DevelopmentalPathways | 183 |
Part IV Using Mixed Methodsin Social Experimentsto Understand Impactson Childrens Pathways | 241 |
Inclusion and MultipleWorlds in Researchand Practice | 327 |
A Reprise on Mixing Methods | 405 |
Contributors | 421 |
Author Index | 427 |
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