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Direct linkRobinson, Kerry; Diaz, Criss Jones – Open University Press, 2005
Early childhood professionals are often required to work with children and families from a range of diverse backgrounds. This book goes beyond simplistic definitions of diversity, encouraging a much broader understanding and helping early childhood educators develop a critical disposition towards assumptions about children and childhood in…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism, Young Children, Sexual Identity
Harwood, Robin L.; Miller, Joan G.; Irizarry, Nydia Lucca – 1995
Noting that the role of culture in the development of child attachment provides a provocative arena for debate among a wide array of scholars, this book details two studies of cultural differences in the meanings given to attachment behavior by middle- and working-class Anglo and Puerto Rican mothers. The book reviews the cultural adaptationism…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
Hart, Betty; Risley, Todd R. – 1999
This book is the second to present the results on a study of how children's practice of speech, as shaped by family interaction, affects learning to talk. Participating in the study were 42 diverse families with young children. Each month for 2.5 years the interactions between 42 one- to two-year-olds and their parents were recorded as the…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Child Language
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Graff, Harvey J. – 1995
This history of growing up is based on more than 500 first-person accounts relating to growing up from the middle of the 18th through the early 20th centuries. Major focus is on the formation, experience, and transformation of the principal paths of growing up. It considers transitions or turning points, particularly as they surround entries and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Biographies, Career Choice, Career Education
Download full textBowman, Barbara T., Ed.; Donovan, M. Suzanne, Ed.; Burns, M. Susan, Ed. – 2001
To enable educators, parents, and policymakers to make sound decisions about programs for young children, the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy was established in 1997 by the National Research Council to study a broad range of research on early learning and development and to explore the implications for the education and care of children ages…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Development
