Social workers today operate in an increasingly ethnically diverse society, yet many of the models that they use fail to reflect that diversity. Lena Robinson's

This innovative text explains child development from a cross-cultural perspective. Using examples to illuminate key points, it considers a range of topics from

Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in thei

This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children. Differing in approach from most other wor