Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources 1st Edition by Catherine Cooper, Celina Chatman, Helen Davis, Todd Bartko ISBN 978-1135607012 1135607012

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ISBN 10: 1135607012

ISBN 13: 978-1135607012

Author:  Catherine R. Cooper, Celina Chatman, Helen M. Davis,  W. Todd Bartko 

When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children’s developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children’s pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate on their way to adolescence and adulthood. This volume shines new light on this important transition by tracing how these contexts — cultural, economic, historical, political, and social — can support or undermine children’s pathways, and how children’s own actions and the actions of those around them shape these pathways. With a focus on demographic changes taking place in the U.S., the volume also maps how experiences of diversity, reflecting culture, ethnicity, gender, and social class, matter for children’s life contexts and options.

Chapters by a team of social scientists in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood present the fruits of ten years of research on these issues with diverse cultural and ethnic communities across the U.S. These include:
*a set of models and measures that trace how contexts and diversity evolve and interact over time, with an epilogue that aligns and compares them;
*surprising new findings, quantitative and qualitative, with cases showing how children and families shape and are affected by their individual, recreational, institutional, and cultural experiences; and
*applications to policy and practice for diverse children and families.

The importance of these new models, methods, findings, and applications is the topic of commentaries by distinguished scholars with both U.S. and international perspectives.

The book is intended for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, as well as students in psychology, sociology, and education.

Table of contents: 

Editors’ Introduction

Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia T. García Coll, W. Todd Bartko, Helen Davis, and Celina Chatman

THEME 1

HOW ADULTS AND CHILDREN, THROUGH THEIR PERCEPTIONS AND ACTIONS, CONNECT RESOURCES ACROSS FAMILY, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS

1 Family Educational Involvement: Who Can Afford It and What Does It Afford?

Heather B. Weiss, Eric Dearing, Ellen Mayer, Holly Kreider, and Kathleen McCartney

2 Family Socialization, Gender, and Participation in Sports and Instrumental Music

Jennifer A. Fredricks, Sandra Simpkins, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles

and the Negotiation of Differences Barrie Thorne

4

The Contexts and Significance of Children’s Everyday Experiences and Activities: A Commentary

W. Todd Bartko

THEME 2

HOW LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS INTERPRET AND USE CONTEXTS AS RESOURCES FOR CREATING PATHWAYS THROUGH CHILDHOOD

5

Children As Unwitting Agents in Their Developmental Pathways

Deborah Stipek

6 Child-Care Instability and the Effort to Sustain a Working

Daily Routine: Evidence From the New Hope Ethnographic

Study of Low-Income Families

Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner, Sonya Geis, and Aletha C. Huston

7 School Engagement of Inner-City Students During Middle Childhood

Phyllis Blumenfeld, John Modell, W. Todd Bartko, Walter G. Secada, Jennifer A. Fredricks, Jeanne Friedel, and Allison Paris

8 The Mediation of Contextual Resources

Walter G. Secada

THEME 3

HOW IMMIGRATION AFFECTS CHILDREN’S EMERGING IDENTITIES IN THEIR FAMILY, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS

9 Beyond Demographic Categories: How Immigration, Ethnicity, and “Race” Matter for Children’s Identities and Pathways Through School

Catherine R. Cooper, Cynthia T. García Coll, Barrie Thorne, and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

10 Children of Dominican, Portuguese, and Cambodian Immigrant Families: Academic Attitudes and Pathways During Middle Childhood

Cynthia T. García Coll, Laura A. Szalacha, and Natalia Palacios

11 Soledad’s Dream: How Immigrant Children Bridge Their Multiple Worlds and Build Pathways to College Catherine R. Cooper, Elizabeth Domínguez, and Soledad Rosas

12 Family Obligation and the Academic Motivation of Young Children From Immigrant Families Andrew J. Fuligni, Jeannette Alvarez, Meredith Bachman, and Diane N. Ruble

13 Pathways to Academic Achievement Among Children From Immigrant Families: A Commentary Vonnie C. McLoyd

14 Contexts, Diversity, Pathways: Advances and Next Steps Jacqueline J. Goodnow

15 Reflections on Childhood, Diversity, Pathways, and Context Alan Prout

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