Societal Contexts of Child Development Pathways of Influence and Implications for Practice and Policy 1st Edition by Elizabeth Gershoff, Rashmita Mistry, Danielle Crosby 9780199943920 0199943923

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ISBN 10: 0199943923
ISBN 13: 9780199943920 
Author: Elizabeth Gershoff, Rashmita Mistry, Danielle Crosby

In the last half century, developmental scientists have become increasingly interested in studying contexts beyond the home environment that contribute to children’s growth and development, including physical contexts such as schools and neighborhoods, as well as social contexts such as poverty. During this same period, a number of social trends have significantly impacted children’s daily lives, including shifts in gender roles and expectations, the emergence of an early care and education system, and the proliferation of media technology. Societal Contexts of Child Development provides comprehensive literature reviews for six broad contextual influences on children’s development that have emerged as key areas of inquiry in contemporary society – gender, child care, culture and ethnicity, poverty, schools and neighborhoods, and media. In the spirit of applied developmental science, this book considers these six contextual domains in a series of two linked chapters written by experts in the interdisciplinary field of developmental science. The first chapter in each section is organized as a review of basic research relevant to a particular context, including a discussion of prominent theoretical and methodological issues. The second chapter in each section then addresses the same context from an applied research perspective, examining and documenting how research has been, can be, or should be used to enhance the everyday lives and developmental outcomes of children and their families through interventions and/or social policies. The book concludes with a chapter specifically dedicated to making connections between research and practice and an epilogue that situates the book’s chapters within the field’s study of contexts. Societal Contexts of Child Development will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, economics, human development, and public policy.

Societal Contexts of Child Development Pathways of Influence and Implications for Practice and Policy 1st Table of contents:

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Contributors

INTRODUCTION: Contextualizing Child Development

SECTION I: Gender as a Shaping Context

1. Gender Development: From Universality to Individuality

2. Gender and Achievement Choices

SECTION II: Child Care: An Early Contextual Opportunity

3. Women’s Work and Child Care: Perspectives and Prospects

4. Issues of Quality and Access Emerging from the Changing Early Childhood Policy Context: Toward th

SECTION III: Cultural Contexts and Immigrant Families

5. An Ecological Approach to Understanding Immigrant Child and Adolescent Developmental Competencies

6. Beyond Families and Schools: Future Directions in Practice and Policy for Children in Immigrant F

SECTION IV: Child Poverty as a Limiting Context of Development

7. Poverty and Children’s Development: Familial Processes as Mediating Influences

8. The World Isn’t Linear or Additive or Decontextualized: Pluralism and Mixed Methods in Understa

SECTION V: Schools and Neighborhoods: The Microcosms of Childhood

9. Neighborhood and School Contexts in the Lives of Children

10. School- and Neighborhood-Based Interventions to Improve the Lives of Disadvantaged Children

SECTION VI: Development in the Context of Omnipresent Media

11. Children and Electronic Media

12. Language, Literacy, and Media: What’s the Word on Sesame Street?

SECTION VII: Programs and Policies as Contextual Opportunities for Improving Children’s Lives

13. Connecting Research and Practice

Epilogue: The Ecology of Human Development in the 21st Century

Index

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