Child Development in Africa (PDF)
Views From Inside: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 146
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on thecontinent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies.They discuss the strengths and limitations of research methods,theories, and interventions designed outside Africa to spurinnovative...
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In this volume, African scholars engaged in research on thecontinent reflect on their recent and ongoing empirical studies.They discuss the strengths and limitations of research methods,theories, and interventions designed outside Africa to spurinnovative research on the continent. And they explore how insightsfrom African philosophical, theoretical, and empirical work can becombined with exogenous forms of knowledge to generateunderstanding of the processes of African children'sdevelopment in ways that are responsive to local contexts andmeaningful for indigenous stakeholders.
A new field of African child development research is emerging inAfrican societies, focusing on children as valued and vulnerablemembers of society and potential civic leaders of the future.Systematic inquiries are now designed to enhance our understandingof how African children think, to discover effective ways ofcommunicating with them, and to inform successful strategies ofpromoting their health, education, and preparation for adultresponsibilities in society.
This is the 146th volume in this Jossey-Bass series NewDirections for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission isto provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edgeissues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on aspecific new direction or research topic and is edited by expertsfrom that field.
A new field of African child development research is emerging inAfrican societies, focusing on children as valued and vulnerablemembers of society and potential civic leaders of the future.Systematic inquiries are now designed to enhance our understandingof how African children think, to discover effective ways ofcommunicating with them, and to inform successful strategies ofpromoting their health, education, and preparation for adultresponsibilities in society.
This is the 146th volume in this Jossey-Bass series NewDirections for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission isto provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edgeissues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on aspecific new direction or research topic and is edited by expertsfrom that field.
Autoren-Porträt
Volume Editors:Robert Serpell is a professor of applied developmental psychology and coordinator of the Center for Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (CAPOLSA) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zambia.
Kofi Marfo is a professor and founding director of the Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University (South-Central Asia, East Africa, and the United Kingdom), and coleader of the Africa Child Development Research Capacity Building initiative.
Series Editors-in-Chief:
Lene Arnett Jensen is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where she holds the Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship.
Reed W. Larson is a professor in the Departments of Human and Community Development, Psychology, Leisure Studies, Kinesiology, and Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the President of the Society for Research on Adolescence from 2008-2010.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 1. Auflage, 128 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Robert Serpell, Kofi Marfo
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1119039967
- ISBN-13: 9781119039969
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.2014
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