Positive Development of Minority Children
Author | : Natasha J. Cabrera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:870034134 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This paper summarises the research evidence on the positive development of minority children in the United States. Sections include: SRCD efforts to advance?research on minority children; What do we know about the life course of?children, youth, and families who are not white?; How should we conduct research with minority families?; Resilience versus positive development; How families and parents foster positive adaptation; and, Lessons and implications. Commentaries on this paper are also included: Minority children? the future majority of the USA, by Cynthia Garcia Coll; Developing a fully specified conceptual framework to guide research and practice in support of the positive development of minority children, by Ivelisse Martinez-Beck; and What are we studying when we study children of color? Asking new questions, advancing new perspectives, by Vonnie C. Mcloyd.