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More Problems With Gap Closing Philosophy and Research
Raven, John
American Psychologist, v60 n9 p1041-1042 Dec 2005
This paper presents comments on Ceci and Papierno's article concerning advantaged and disadvantaged youth interventions. The author notes that while the article was more than welcome, the discussion was nevertheless still couched within a seriously culturally biased conceptual framework. Even though most psychologists accept this framework, it actually renders many ways of dealing with the problem of disadvantage invisible and undiscussable. The author uses an example inquiring into mothers' priorities in child rearing. Overall, the author feels that virtually all the interventions discussed by Ceci and Papierno are construed within--and designed to reward--what one might call a Western, middle-class mind-set and to reinforce its personal and social structural consequences through a self-fulfilling process.
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Advantaged, Intervention, Social Science Research, Social Bias, Cultural Influences, Mothers, Child Rearing, Middle Class, Socioeconomic Status, Social Structure
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