The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion

The Child

An Encyclopedic Companion

Richard A. Shweder, Editor in Chief

Edited by Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey,
Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell

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Editor in Chief of The Child

Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Shweder has written several books on cultural psychology and human development, including most recently Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology.

Editors of The Child

Thomas R. Bidell is an independent scholar who received his graduate training in cognitive development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Anne C. Dailey is the Evangeline Starr Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Suzanne D. Dixon is a behavioral and developmental pediatrician, a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and a clinical professor at the University of Washington.

Peggy J. Miller is a developmental and cultural psychologist and a professor in the Departments of Communication, Psychology, and Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

John Modell is professor emeritus of education and sociology at Brown University.

Advisors for The Child

Ronald G. Barr Joel Best Jerome Bruner
Michael Cole William Damon Judy Dunn
Wolfgang Edelstein Heidi M. Feldman Heidi Fung
Carol Gilligan Susan Goldin-Meadow Joseph P. Gone
Jacqueline J. Goodnow Linda Gordon Harvey J. Graff
Patricia Marks Greenfield Neal Halfon Giyoo Hatano
Robin L. Jarrett Jerome Kagan Sudhir Kakar
Lourdes de León Robert A. LeVine Hazel Rose Markus
Vonnie McLoyd Jay Mechling Peter C. Murrell, Jr.
Dorothy E. Roberts Barbara Rogoff Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe
Martin T. Stein Collette A. Suda Michael S. Wald
Thomas S. Weisner Ruth Enid Zambrana  

 

Book details:

Richard A. Shweder, Editor in Chief
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
©2009 1144 pages, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings, 7 tables 7-3/8 × 9-5/8
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