| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Worlds of childhood // [edited by] Robert H. Wozniak ; associate editors, Mary T. Rourke, Berit I. Haahr. |
| remainder title: |
Worlds of childhood reader/study guide |
| other author: |
Rourke, Mary T. |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :HarperCollins College Publishers, : c1993., |
| Description: |
viii, 504 p. :ill. ;26 cm. |
| Notes: |
Cover title: Worlds of childhood, reader/study guide. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Development and diversity -- Ecology of development -- Heredity and environment: prenatal development; evolution, environment, and growth; nature and nurture interwoven -- Culture and context: culture, time, and place; changing families and systems of support -- Children and families: individual differences and developmental milestones; symbol formation and the acquisition of language; concepts and categories, meanings and memories; responsive caregiving; interactional styles and attachment; gender, self, and other; rivalry and interdependence in sibling relationships -- Schooling: daycare and the American "cult of motherhood"; mathematics achievement and the Asian advantage -- Peer relationships: friendship, gender, and emerging sexuality ; peer culture -- Culture, time, and place: adolescence, the prolonged transition; risk and resilence; child at work; death, divorce, and remarriage, the child's perspective. |
| Subject: |
Child development - |
| ISBN: |
0065013336 |