Japanese Childrearing: Two Generations of Scholarship
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Midwest Book Review
Japanese Childrearing: Two Generations Of Scholarship is an illuminating integration of the past half-century of cross-cultural research on Japanese childrearing and socialization, placing current findings in the historical context and offering concrete suggestions for new research. Coupling studies by influential senior scholars with reaction papers by younger-generation researchers, Japanese Childrearing illustrates the lasting value of past scholarship and mentoring while it explores how theories and methodologies in the field have evolved over time. The heart of the work is a collection of retrospectives by eight noted senior investigators, known for their seminal studies on the subject of Japanese children. Following each of them are constructive yet critical reaction papers that present current findings on Japanese childrearing and social development. Japanese Childrearing concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research for the general study of culture and development worldwide. Japanese Childrearing is a benchmark work of seminal importance and of interest to students of Japanese culture and/or human development.
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"This anthology is a remarkable antidote to the impatient disposition of the current academia that dismisses earlier scholarly achievements as irrelevant. Junior authors, each paired with seniors, offer not only support but disagreements and more updated alternatives, and yet all in a refreshingly collaborative and cumulative spirit. This editorial strategy is also effective in highlighting major theoretical issues and discoveries in the comparative study of Japanese childrearing. I want to share what I have learned from this innovative approach with colleagues in developmental psychology, cross-cultural psychology, education, anthropology, sociology, and Japanese studies. It is a model text as well." --Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
"This valuable set of essays captures the rich history of the attempt, over the last four decades, to understand the differences between Japanese and American childrearing. The contributions of Caudill, Azuma, Hess, Vogel, and others are honored in a style that marries the easy flow of autobiography with the technical prose of social science." --Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Harvard University
"This fascinating and thought-provoking book builds bridges between such counterparts as generation of researchers, disciplines, cultures, and historical times. The most effective way of crossing the bridges, however, will be talks within the reader's mind. I look forward to active debates among readers and within the individual reader that will be inspired by this valuable book." --Hideo Kojima, Ph.D., School of Education, Nagoya University, JAPAN
Japanese Childrearing: Two Generations of Scholarship,David W. Shwalb,Barbara J. Shwalb,The Guilford Press,1572300817,Child development,Child rearing,Children,Children's Studies,Culture,Developmental - General,General,Japan,Parent And Child,Psychology,Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent,Social Science,Social conditions,Sociology - General,Adolescents,Child & developmental psychology,Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology
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