Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development (Paperback)

Contents: Preface. P.M. Greenfield, Independence and Interdependence as Developmental Scripts: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice. Part I: American Roots. F.M.T. Uribe, R.A. LeVine, S.E. LeVine, Maternal Behavior in a Mexican Community: The Changing Environments of Children. C. Delgado-Gaitan, Socializing Young Children in Mexican-American Families: An Intergenerational Perspective. R.G. Tharp, Intergroup Differences Among Native Americans in Socialization and Child Cognition: An Ethnogenetic Analysis. J.R. Joe, Revaluing Native-American Concepts of Development and Education. J.H. Suina, L.B. Smolkin, From Natal Culture to School Culture to Dominant Society Culture: Supporting Transitions for Pueblo Indian Students. Part II: African Roots. A.B. Nsamenang, M.E. Lamb, Socialization of Nso Children in the Bamenda Grassfields of Northwest Cameroon. J. Rabain-Jamin, Language and Socialization of the Child in African Families Living in France. I.K. Blake, Language Development and Socialization in Young African-American Children. B.A. Oloko, Children's Street Work in Urban Nigeria: Dilemma of Modernizing Tradition. Part III: Asian Roots. U. Kim, S-H. Choi, Individualism, Collectivism, and Child Development: A Korean Perspective. T.S. Lebra, Mother and Child in Japanese Socialization: A Japan-U.S. Comparison. H. Azuma, Two Modes of Cognitive Socialization in Japan and the United States. D.Y.F. Ho, Cognitive Socialization in Confucian Heritage Cultures. H. Stevenson, Moving Away From Stereotypes and Preconceptions: Students and Their Education in East Asia and the United States. B. Schneider, J.A. Hieshima, S. Lee, S. Plank, East-Asian Academic Success in the United States: Family, School, and Community Explanations. R. Takanishi, Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Socialization of Asian-Originated Children: The Case of Japanese Americans. Part IV: Concluding Perspectives. J.U. Ogbu, From Cultural Differences to Differences in Cultural Frame of Reference. R.R. Cocking, Ecologically Valid Frameworks of Development: Accounting for Continuities and Discontinuities Across Contexts.