Childhood and Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Introduction xiii
• Part I - Worldwide Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence 1
• Chapter 1 - The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: 3
• Chapter 2 - Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood 46
• Chapter 3 - All the World's Children: 81
• Chapter 4 - Literacy Development in Global Perspective: 110
• Part II - Childcare and Parenting 131
• Chapter 5 - Social Contexts of Weaning: 133
• Note 145
• Chapter 6 - Challenging Expert Knowledge: 149
• References 164
• Chapter 7 - Competence and Satisfaction in Parenting Young Children: 166
• Part III - Two Themes in Children's Lives: 197

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Introduction xiii
• Part I - Worldwide Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence 1
• Chapter 1 - The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: 3
• Chapter 2 - Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood 46
• Chapter 3 - All the World's Children: 81
• Chapter 4 - Literacy Development in Global Perspective: 110
• Part II - Childcare and Parenting 131
• Chapter 5 - Social Contexts of Weaning: 133
• Note 145
• Chapter 6 - Challenging Expert Knowledge: 149
• References 164
• Chapter 7 - Competence and Satisfaction in Parenting Young Children: 166
• Part III - Two Themes in Children's Lives: 197
• Chapter 8 - Gender Roles in Childhood and Adolescence 199
• Chapter 9 - Sibling Interactions 229
• References 246
• Part IV - Adolescents in the Global Village 253
• Chapter 10 - Adolescents in the Developing World 255
• Chapter 11 - Adolescence in the Twenty-First Century: 277
• References 292
• Part V - The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the United States 295
• Chapter 12 - The Adaptation and Acculturation of Children from Immigrant Families 297
• Chapter 13 - Factors Tied to the Schooling of Children of English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants in the United States 319
• References 342
• Chapter 14 - The Acquisition of English and Maintenance of First Language by Immigrant Children and Adolescents in North America 350
• Notes 370
• Part VI - Difficult Adjustments 375
• Chapter 15 - The Changing Developmental Dynamics of Children in Particularly Difficult Circumstances: Examples of Street and War-Traumatized Children 377
• References 407
• Chapter 16 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology 411
• References 427
• Epilogue 431
• Chapter 17 - Cross-Cultural Human Development: 433
• Selected Bibliography 443
• Index 459
• About the Editors and Contributors 465