Developmental pathways through middle childhood rethinking contexts and diversity as resources

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 m...

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Other Authors: Cooper, Catherine R. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (369 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135607050
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