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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811095303321

Titolo

Developmental pathways through middle childhood : rethinking contexts and diversity as resources / / edited by Catherine R. Cooper. [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J. : , : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-60705-2

1-135-60706-0

1-282-37537-7

9786612375378

1-4106-1555-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooperCatherine R

Disciplina

305.231

Soggetti

Child development

Children - Social conditions

School children

Children with social disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword: Contextualizing Middle Childhood: Beyond 1984; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; THEME 1 HOW ADULTS AND CHILDREN, THROUGH THEIR PERCEPTIONS AND ACTIONS, CONNECT RESOURCES ACROSS FAMILY, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS; THEME 2 HOW LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS INTERPRET AND USE CONTEXTS AS RESOURCES FOR CREATING PATHWAYS THROUGH CHILDHOOD; THEME 3 HOW IMMIGRATION AFFECTS CHILDREN'S EMERGING IDENTITIES IN THEIR FAMILY, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS; Epilogue: Mapping Concepts of Contexts, Diversity, and Pathways Across Disciplines; Author Index

Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and



practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate on their way to adolescence and adulthood. This volume shines new light on this important transition by tracing how these contexts -- cultural, economic, historical, political, and social -- can support or undermine children's pathways, and how children's own actions and the actions of those arou