Cultural Practices as Contexts for Development: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education (J-B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent ... for Child & Adolescent Development) - Softcover

 
9780787999155: Cultural Practices as Contexts for Development: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education (J-B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent ... for Child & Adolescent Development)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0787999156 ISBN 13: 9780787999155
Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

How can the concepts of culture and context be incorporated into acounts of development and research on development? This volume of New Directions for Child Development introduces approaches based on the notion of cultural practices; these are viewed as meaningful actions that occur routinely in everyday life, are widely shard by members of the group, and carry normative expectations about the way things should be done. To illustrate use of the concept, four of the chapters describe specific research studies, drawn from anthropology, psychology, and sociology. these are framed by a general introduction to the conept of cultural practices and a commentary on its connection to toher concepts, such as activity and activity systems. This is the 67th issue of the journal series New Directions for Child Development.

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JACQUELINE J. GOODNOW is professorial research fellow, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. PEGGY J. MILLER is associate professor, Department of Speech Communication and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. FRANK KESSEL is program director, Social Science Research Council, with major responsibility for the Committee on Culture, Health, and Human Development.

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How can the concepts of culture and context be incorporated into acounts of development and research on development? This volume of New Directions for Child Development introduces approaches based on the notion of cultural practices; these are viewed as meaningful actions that occur routinely in everyday life, are widely shard by members of the group, and carry normative expectations about the way things should be done. To illustrate use of the concept, four of the chapters describe specific research studies, drawn from anthropology, psychology, and sociology. these are framed by a general introduction to the conept of cultural practices and a commentary on its connection to toher concepts, such as activity and activity systems. This is the 67th issue of the journal series "New Directions for Child Development." For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Peirodicals page.

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How can the concepts of culture and context be incorporated into acounts of development and research on development? This volume of New Directions for Child Development introduces approaches based on the notion of cultural practices; these are viewed as meaningful actions that occur routinely in everyday life, are widely shard by members of the group, and carry normative expectations about the way things should be done. To illustrate use of the concept, four of the chapters describe specific research studies, drawn from anthropology, psychology, and sociology. these are framed by a general introduction to the conept of cultural practices and a commentary on its connection to toher concepts, such as activity and activity systems. This is the 67th issue of the journal series "New Directions for Child Development." For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Peirodicals page.

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Verlag
Jossey-Bass
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0787999156
ISBN 13 
9780787999155
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
136
Herausgeber
Goodnow Jacqueline J.
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