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Making Friends: The Influences of Culture and Development

Link: http://www.brookespublishing.com

This book takes a fascinating journey through the complex process of how children make, keep, and end friendships from childhood to early adulthood. Focusing on issues of disability, cultural diversity, and combinations of the two, the authors use participatory and in-school research models to reveal what really happens in children’s social relationships and why. School-age children of varying backgrounds and abilities share firsthand their feelings on topics ranging from fairness to racial tension. (From back cover of book)

• Author/Creator: Meyer, L.H., Hyun-Sook, P., Grenot-Scheyer, M., Schwartz, I.S., Harry, B.
• Notes: Comments: The work in this volume unquestionably represents important contributions for children and youth from diverse cultures and with diverse abilities. It also addresses issues affecting family members, service providers, and employers in schools, in community programs, and in the workplace. Although this volume is dynamic in that it delivers fresh approaches and perspectives of youth with a range of diverse abilities, the lessons on cultural differences and inclusion extend the possibilities of the message far beyond the academic setting and the research community. Perhaps the major contribution of this book is not the information it provides but the empowerment of constituencies who fully participated in the discovery of this knowledge.-From forward by Concha Delgado-Gaitan, Ph.D., University of California-Davis
• Publisher: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Childhood friends
• Subject: Diverse Abilities
• Subject: Diverse Cultures
• Subject: Race and Ethnicity in Urban Schools

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