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Title Discovering successful pathways in children's development : mixed methods in the study of childhood and family life / edited by Thomas S. Weisner.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.231 D611D    Check Shelf
Description vii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and human development
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development.
Note Papers presented at a conference.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Using mixed methods to explore Latino children's literacy development / Claude Goldenberg, Ronald Gallimore and Leslie Reese -- Working it out : the chronicle of a mixed-methods analysis / Heather B. Weiss ... [et al.] -- Mixed methods, more justified conclusions : the case of the Abt evaluation of the Comer program in Detroit / Lois-ellin Datta -- The ecology of children's racial coping : family, school and community influences / Deborah J. Johnson -- Sites of belonging : acculturation, discrimination and ethnic identity among children of immigrants / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- Taking culture seriously : making the social survey ethnographic / Tom Fricke -- Combining ethnography and GIS technology to examine constructions of developmental opportunities in contexts of poverty and disability / Debra Skinner, Stephen Matthews and Linda Burton -- Bullets don't got no name : consequences of fear in the ghetto / Jeffrey R. King, Jeffrey B. Liebman and Lawrence F. Katz -- Qualitative/quantitative synergies in a random-assignment program evaluation / Christina M. Gibson-Davis and Greg J. Duncan -- Entering the developmental niche : mixed methods in an intervention program for inner-city children / Sara Harkness ... [et al.] -- Including Latino immigrant families, schools and community programs as research partners on the good path of life (El Buen Camino de la vida) / Catherine R. Cooper ... [et al.] -- Civil rights and academic development : mixed methods and the task of ensuring educational equality / Mica Pollock -- Synthesis : a reprise on mixing methods / Jennifer C. Greene.
Subject Child development -- Research -- Congresses.
Socialization -- Research -- Congresses.
Ethnicity in children -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Immigrant children -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Children with social disabilities -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Home and school -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Educational anthropology -- Research -- Congresses.
Social ecology -- Research -- Congresses.
Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Congresses.
Added Author Weisner, Thomas S., 1943-
ISBN 0226886646 alkaline paper
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