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Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life.Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen.To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methodsthe state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts.Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226886640, 978-0226886640
      ISBN10: 0226886646
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      Child and developmental psychology

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      Book Synopsis
      Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life.Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen.To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methodsthe state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts.Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues

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