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.
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