Wendy L. Haight

Professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy Wendy L Haight

Peggy Jo Miller

Professor Emerita of Psychology Peggy J Miller

Early Development in a Sociocultural Context

Pretending at Home

Peggy J. Miller

Traces the development of pretend play in nine children growing up in educated, middle-class European American families. Illuminates how pretend play is embedded in distinct sociocultural contexts: physical and social ecologies, social and communicative conventions, and a broad system of belief. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Misa Kayama

Wendy Haight

This book examines how the concept of disability is starting to take root in the Japanese school system, and what the implications are for parents, teachers, policy makers, and other stakeholders.

A CASE STUDY OF JAPANESE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL

DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Sachiko Bamba

Bamba and Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Their innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography and action research. Although child advocates from around the world share certain goals and challenges, there is substantial cultural variation in how child maltreatment is understood, its origins, impact on children and families, as well as societal responses deemed appropriate. The authors step outside of the Western cultural context to illustrate creative ecologically and developmentally based strategies for supporting the psychosocial well-being of maltreated children in state care, provide an alternative but complementary model to the prevalent large-scale survey strategies for conducting international research in child welfare, and provide a resource for educators to enhance the international content of human development, education, social work and child welfare courses.

A Japanese Case Study

Child Welfare and Development

Wendy L. Haight

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