Description: Earlier edition held in conjunction with the Workshop on Childhood and Adolescence in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2000: New York Academy of Sciences).
Brief description: JAIPAUL L. ROOPNARINE is Professor of Education at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York.
Review Quotes:
"This focus on contextualism, which is on display in this collection, not only permits one to study cultural similarities and differences in developmental processes but also to make developmental comparisons within cultural contexts by integrating contributions by anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." --Choice
"Gielen and Roopnarine's volume has the potential to fill an important role in science of childhood and developmental science. Instructors at both the undergraduate and graduate levels will find the book useful as a course text or as supplementary material. The writing and editing is welcoming to non-academics as well, and policymakers, health professionals, and clinicians, and even parents, will find the information found between covers of the book useful." --PsycCRITIQUES