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The Development of Course Content: Teaching Child Development from a Multicultural Perspective. Focus on African American Children

This paper addresses the dominant view from which child development is currently taught, examining the impact of culture on the developing child and offering a rationale for shifting paradigms toward a more inclusive framework of instruction. The dominant framework presents child development from a middle class white, generally western, paradigm. Culture is an important contributor to child development. Many aspects of culture represent adaptation to the environment in which the group lives.

• Author/Creator: Dixon, Gwendolyn
• Date Published: 02-00
• Notes: Connect to the catalog at the library of the University of Colorado at Boulder. English In: National Association of African American Studies & National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies: 2000 Literature Monograph Series. Proceedings (Education Section) (Houston, TX, February 21-26, 2000). Document (RIE) 141 Reports--Descriptive; 150 Speeches/Meeting Papers EDRS: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
• Year: 2001

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Subject: Blacks
• Subject: Child Development
• Subject: Cultural Influences

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