Parenting: An Ecological Perspective, Second Edition
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Midwest Book Review
Parenting: An Ecological Perspective is the first to bring together in one place the results of research on parents and children conducted from the perspective of an ecological paradigm. The number and scope of investigations explicitly or implicitly employing an ecological model has increased substantially over the past two decades, with attention focused on the family system as the primary context of child rearing and its dynamic linkages with other key contexts affecting development: child care, school, parental workplace, neighborhood, class, and culture. Parenting enables readers to view the full range of this domain through its judicious selection of relevant studies, rich and rigorous interpretation and integration of research findings, and promising directions and concrete hypotheses for future research. It demonstrates that the complex task of considering the combined influences of several factors can be accomplished, bringing new knowledge and opening new vistas for the realization of human potential through parenting.
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Book Description
Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these questions is the ecological perspective developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who recognized that children's development is influenced by the interactions that they have over time with the people, objects, and symbols in their immediate environment.
Luster and Okagaki have updated the original text focusing on parental behavior and also included 6 new chapters covering topics such as:
*Fathers/gender of parent;
*Children with special needs;
*Ethnicity and socioeconomic status; and
*Parent education.
The text summarizes the latest research on factors that influence parenting, with each chapter providing a look at one important influence and the linkages among these various factors. An ecological perspective draws attention to the fact that the lives of parents and children are intertwined, and that understanding factors that influence parents is important for understanding the experiences of children.
Parenting: An Ecological Perspective, Second Edition,Tom Luster,Lynn Okagaki,Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,080584807X,Child Care/Parenting,Developmental - Adulthood & Aging,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Parenting,Parenting - General,Social ecology,Psychology / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging
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