ED391845 UD030787
Title: Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions,
and Consequences.
Author(s): Harkness, Sara, Ed.; Super, Charles M., Ed.
Pages: 572
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 1-57230-031-0
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Guilford Press, A Division of Guilford Publications,
Inc., 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 ($60).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020); Reports--Evaluative
(142)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEJUN1996
This volume
presents observations and thinking of scholars from a variety of
disciplines about parental cultural belief systems. The chapters
are concerned with the sources and consequences of parental ethnotheories
in a number of societies. The following chapters are included: (1)
"Introduction" (Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super); (2)
"Parents' Free Descriptions of Child Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural
Search for the Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five" (Geldolph
A. Kohnstamm, Charles F. Halverson, Jr., Valerie Havill, and Ivan
Mervielde); (3) "Processes of Generalization in Parental Reasoning"
(Jaan Valsiner and Gorjana Litvinovic); (4) "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); (5) "Essential Contrasts: Differences in Parental
Ideas about Learners and Teaching in Tahiti and Nepal" (Robert
I. Levy); (6) "How Do Children Develop Knowledge: Beliefs of
Tanzanian and American Mothers" (Ann V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi
and Subha Subramanian); (7) "Japanese Mothers' Ideas about
Infants and Temperament" (David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb,
and Junichi Shoji); (8) "Scenes from a Marriage: Equality Ideology
in Swedish Family Policy, Maternal Ethnotheories, and Practice"
(Barbara Welles-Nystrom); (9) "Parents' and Adolescents' Ideas
on Children: Origins and Transmission of Intracultural Diversity"
(Jesus Palacios and Maria Carmen Moreno); (10) "Education and
Mother-Infant Interaction: A Mexican Case Study" (Robert A.
LeVine, Patrice M. Miller, Amy L. Richman, and Sarah LeVine); (11)
"The Contrasting Developmental Timetables of Parents and Preschool
Teachers in Two Cultural Communities" (Carolyn Pope Edwards,
Lella Gandini, and Donatella Giovaninni); (12) "Ask the Doctor:
The Negotiation of Cultural Models in American Parent-Pediatrician
Discourse" (Sara Harkness, Charles M.
Super, Constance H. Keefer, Chemba S. Raghavan, and Elizabeth Kipp
Campbell); (13) "From Household Practices to Parents' Ideas
about Work and Interpersonal Relationships" (Jacqueline J.
Goodnow); (14) "How Mayan Parental Theories Come into Play"
(Suzanne Gaskins); (15) "Parental Theories in the Management
of Young Children's Sleep in Japan, Italy, and the United States"
(Abraham W. Wolf, Betsy Lozoff, Sara Latz, and Robert Paludetto);
(16) "Maternal Beliefs and Infant Care Practices in Italy and
the United States" (Rebecca S. New and Amy L. Richman); (17)
"My Child Is My Crown: Yoruba Parental Theories and Practices
in Early Childhood" (Marian Zeitlin); (18) "Growth Consequences
of Low-Income Nicaraguan Mothers' Theories about Feeding 1-Year-Olds"
(Patrice L. Engle, Marian Zeitlin, Yadira Medrano, and Lino Garcia
M.); (19) "The Three R's of Dutch Childrearing and the Socialization
of Infant Arousal" (Charles M. Super, Sara Harkness, Nathalie
van Tijen, Ellen van der Vlugt, Marinka Fintelman, and Jarissa Dijkstra);
(20) "Imagining and Engaging One's Children: Lessons from Poor,
Rural, New England Mothers"
(Lynne A. Bond, Mary Field Belenky, Jacqueline S. Weinstock, and
Toni Cook); and (21) "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). References follow each chapter, and
a sheet of errata is included. (Contains 52 tables and 14 figures.)
(SLD)
Descriptors: *Beliefs; Child Development; *Child Rearing; Cross
Cultural Studies; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Background; *Cultural
Differences; Cultural Traits; Ethnic Groups; Ethnography; *Etiology;
Foreign Countries; *Parent Attitudes; Parent Child Relationship;
Parent Role
Identifiers: French Polynesia; Italy; Japan; Mexico; Nepal; Netherlands;
Nicaragua; Nigeria; Sweden; Tanzania
