[Ebook PDF] Child Development Worldwide: A Cultural Approach, 1st Edition

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[Ebook PDF] Child Development Worldwide: A Cultural Approach, 1st Edition

Authors: Jensen Lene Arnett (Author), Jensen Arnett Jeffery (Author)

For courses in Child Development which take a topical approach An expansive, topical approach to how culture impacts development Child Development Worldwide presents a topical examination of all stages of development — from prenatal development through middle childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood — through the engaging lens of culture. Cross-cultural examples integrated throughout the narrative reveal the impact of cultural factors both in the US and around the world. Authors Lene Arnett Jensen and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett emphasize culture to foster a thorough, balanced view of development that prepares students to face challenges in our diverse and globalized world — whether they travel the globe or remain in their hometowns. Child Development Worldwide is also available via Revel ™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.

PREFACE
Child Development Worldwide: A Cultural Approach grows out of our personal, teaching, and professional experiences. Lene grew up in Denmark and Belgium, and Jeff in the United States. Together, we have lived in Denmark, India, France, and the United States. We have shared the wonderful experience of being involved in the development of our twins, now 18 years old, who have traveled with us to all those places and consider themselves fully American and fully Danish. Both of us have taught a wide range of developmental psychology courses, including child development. What is striking to us about the world and the field of child development are the remarkable changes that both have undergone in the last decades. We wrote this text to reflect those changes.
Globalization and technology have been making the world smaller—with distances shrinking and interconnections multiplying. Cultural diversity and globalization are often part of the everyday experiences of today’s students—through travel, migration, and study abroad programs, as well as everyday real-life and virtual interactions. We see this vividly in our twins’ lives as they learn about different cultures from their teachers, have friends from many different countries, and play Internet games with children from across the globe. These worldwide changes are here to stay and will continue to profoundly impact children’s lives.
Today, the field of child development is as fascinating and important as it has ever been—and, like the world, looks much different than it did 15 or 25 years ago. Child Development Worldwide speaks to that change. After all, child development does not occur in a vacuum. It happens in numerous communal contexts and cultural settings that are perpetually changing. By encouraging students to see children through a cultural lens, this text balances the universals and Westerncentric research that have in the past characterized much of the field with the growing body of research on the development of children from diverse cultures within and across countries.
Our experiences of growing up and working in a number of different countries have translated into an approach that emphasizes how universal features of development are shaped by cultural diversity. Child Development Worldwide offers this new approach, in four fundamental ways:
1. An emphasis on teaching students to think culturally about development;
2. A broadened scope of child development and an updated perspective on when children may be considered “grown up”;
3. An unprecedented inclusion of diverse contexts of child development;
4. A deep integration of digital technology into the text.