Publisher's Synopsis
This volume of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Developmentexamines the reciprocal interaction between individual developmentand cultural change--showing how participation in culture involvesnot only acceptance of shared values and practices, but alsoconflicts, contested meanings, and change. The authors reveal howthe processes of learning and transmission evolve along with theculture over time, describing, for example, how diversity ineducational philosophy and practices in Japanese preschools havearisen from a so-called homogeneous culture. The authors alsodemonstrate how long-term historical change always includes bothprogress and regression, and explain how individuals in positionsof power carry multiple perspectives on the culture that lead toconflict and, ultimately, to change.
This is the 83rd issue of the quarterly journal NewDirections for Child and Adolescent Development.
