ED399344 UD031309
Title: Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development.
Author(s): Greenfield, Patricia M., Ed.; Cocking, Rodney R., Ed.
Pages: 435
Publication Date: 1994
Notes: Chapters drawn from a workshop titled "Continuities and
Discontinuities in the Cognitive Socializationof Minority Children"
(Washington, DC).
ISBN: 0-8058-1224-5
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 365 Broadway,
Hillsdale, NJ 07642 (paperback: ISBN-0-8058-1224-5, $29.95; clothbound:
ISBN-0-8058-1223-7, $89.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020); Reports--Evaluative
(142)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Jersey
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1997
This book
explores the extent to which the development and socialization of
minority children can be seen as continuous with their ancestral
cultures. Whether cultural and political conditions in the United
States have modified development and socialization processes, and
the extent to which ancestral cultures have changed are examined
in the 19 chapters of this collection. A major focus is the learning
consequences of two value themes that characterize and contrast
Euro-American culture in North America and much of Western Europe
with that of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Native American societies.
The first is dimension of an individualistic and independent orientation
versus a collective, social, and interdependent orientation. The
second theme is the contrast between the early socialization goal
of maximizing educational development versus the socialization goal
of infant survival and childhood subsistence skills. Connections
in socialization patterns and values are traced in Mexican and Mexican-American
societies, African and African-French societies, and between East-Asian
and Asian-American settings. References follow each chapter. (Contains
19 tables and 27 figures.) (SLD)
Descriptors: *Acculturation; Asian Americans; *Child Development;
Cross Cultural Studies; *Cultural Background; Cultural Traits; Ethnic
Groups; Foreign Countries; *Immigrants; Individualism; Minority
Groups; Parent Child Relationship; *Socialization; *Values
Identifiers: Africa; Asia; Collectivism; France; Mexico
