Child Development Research and the Third World: A Future of Mutual Interest?.

Wagner, Daniel A.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Child Development Research and the Third World: A Future of Mutual Interest?

Wagner, Daniel A.

American Psychologist, v41 n3 p298-301 Mar 1986

Although significant research on child development has been undertaken in the Third World, Euro-American paradigmatic limitations have prevented policymakers from applying the knowledge gained to child development programs there. Several suggestions are made for altering the situation. (PS)

Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Ethnocentrism, Foreign Culture, Infant Mortality, Policy Formation, Public Health, Research Utilization

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