| Description |
xii, 558 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Culture and human development
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super -- Parents' free descriptions of child characteristics : a cross-cultural search for the developmental antecedents of the Big Five / Geldolph A. Kohnstamm ... [et al.] -- Processes of generalization in parental reasoning / Jaan Valsiner and Gorjana Litvinovic -- The answer depends on the question : a conceptual and methodological analysis of a parent belief-behavior interview regarding children's learning / Irving E. Sigel and Myung-In Kim -- Essential contrasts : differences in parental ideas about learners and teaching in Tahiti and Nepal / Robert I. Levy -- How do children develop knowledge? Beliefs of Tanzanian and American mothers / Ann V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi and Subha Subramanian -- Japanese mothers' ideas about infants and temperament / David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Junichi Shoji. |
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Scenes from a marriage : equality ideology in Swedish family policy, maternal ethnotheories, and practice / Barbara Welles-Nystrom - - Parents' and adolescents' ideas on children : origins and transmission of intracultural diversity / Jesus Palacios and Maria Carmen Moreno -- Education and mother-infant interaction : a Mexican case study / Robert A. LeVine ... [et al.] -- The contrasting developmental timetables of parents and preschool teachers in two cultural communities / Carolyn Pope Edwards, Lella Gandini, and Donatella Giovaninni -- Ask the doctor : the negotiation of cultural models in American parent-pediatrician discourse / Sara Harkness ... [et al.] -- From household practices to parents' ideas about work and interpersonal relationships / Jacqueline J. Goodnow. |
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How Mayan parental theories come into play / Suzanne Gaskins -- Parental theories in the management of young children's sleep in Japan, Italy, and the United States / Abraham W. Wolf ... [et al.] -- Maternal beliefs and infant care practices in Italy and the United States / Rebecca S. New and Amy L. Richman -- My child is my crown : Yoruba parental theories and practices in early childhood / Marian Zeitlin -- Growth consequences of low-income Nicaraguan mothers' theories about feeding 1-year-olds / Patrice L. Engle ... [et al.] -- The three Rs of Dutch childrearing and the socialization of infant arousal / Charles M. Super ... [et al.] -- Imagining and engaging one's children : lessons from poor, rural, New England mothers / Lynne A. Bond ... [et al.] -- American cultural models of early influence and parent recognition of developmental delays : is earlier always better than later? / Thomas S. Weisner, Catherine C. Matheson, and Lucinda P. Bernheimer. |
| Subject |
Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies
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Child development -- Cross-cultural studies
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Socialization -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Harkness, Sara.
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Super, Charles M.
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| ISBN |
1572300310 (acid-free paper) |
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