Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
| Child Development | 6 |
| Developing Nations | 6 |
| Foreign Countries | 5 |
| Children | 3 |
| Cross Cultural Studies | 3 |
| Adolescents | 2 |
| Cultural Context | 2 |
| Cultural Influences | 2 |
| Developed Nations | 2 |
| Early Childhood Education | 2 |
| Infants | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| InTech | 1 |
Author
| Goldberg, Susan | 1 |
| Kagitcibasi, Cigdem | 1 |
| Verhellen, Eugeen, Ed. | 1 |
| Werner, Emmy Elisabeth | 1 |
| Woodhead, Martin | 1 |
| Yuca, Sevil Ari, Ed. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Books | 6 |
| Information Analyses | 2 |
| Collected Works - General | 1 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Collected Works - Serials | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| United Nations Convention on… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkYuca, Sevil Ari, Ed. – InTech, 2012
This book aims to provide readers with a general as well as an advanced overview of the key trends in childhood obesity. Obesity is an illness that occurs due to a combination of genetic, environmental, psychosocial, metabolic and hormonal factors. The prevalence of obesity has shown a great rise both in adults and children in the last 30 years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk, Physical Activities, Adolescents
Verhellen, Eugeen, Ed. – 2001
Papers compiled in this sixth annual conference collection deal with views and theories on children's rights and provide extensive information on background, motivation, strategies, and main trends in the field of children's rights. Following the welcome addresses to the conference, the 43 papers cover a variety of relevant topics, including: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Childrens Rights
Download full textWoodhead, Martin – 1996
Those involved in early childhood development must recognize that many of their most cherished beliefs about what is best for children are cultural constructions. This book focuses on quality in large-scale programs for disadvantaged young children in a variety of cultural settings. Chapter 1, "Changing Childhoods," discusses issues…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Cultural Relevance
Werner, Emmy Elisabeth – 1979
This book represents a synthesis of current knowledge about the physical, cognitive and social development of young children who live in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin-America, and Oceania. The book develops five major themes: (1) It views child development in a comparative fashion, examining universal sequences in development as…
Descriptors: Books, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Goldberg, Susan – 1974
Based on two years of research experience in Zambia, the author examines ethical and political implications of research inforeign countries. The economic and political reality is that richer, Western countries have the resources to do the research while the poorer countries have the information. Cooperative efforts could alleviate this situation,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Area Studies, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Kagitcibasi, Cigdem – 1996
Using a contextual-developmental-functional approach, this book seeks to discover the functional links between family dynamics and socialization within varying sociocultural contexts to human development, and to integrate theory and application in large-scale interventions promoting human well-being and societal development in the Majority World.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
