Children of the urban poor : the sociocultural environment of growth, development, and malnutrition in Guatemala City
著者
書誌事項
Children of the urban poor : the sociocultural environment of growth, development, and malnutrition in Guatemala City
Westview Press, 1995
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-189)
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Drawing on biomedical and ethnographic methodologies to study the stresses and strategies employed by poor urban families in Guatemala City, this book assesses the development of the children raised under difficult conditions. With an emphasis on growth, cognition and educational achievement as outcomes of successful strategies, the book should be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and educators, as well as scholars interested in problems of Third World development.
目次
- Sociocultural, political and economic context of malnutrition and child development in Guatemala
- an ecological approach to the study of the environments of the urban poor
- an urban ethnography of El Progreso
- patterns of socioeconomic variability and home stimulation
- physical growth and nutritional status of the children of El Progreso
- the sociocultural context of physical growth
- the sociocultural ecology of mental development and school performance
- families, households and coping with the environment.
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