Human Development in Cultural Context A Third World Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Conceptual Framework ........1 Background, Challenges, and Perspectives ...............3 The Bioecology of Human Development ..........21 2. Developmental Roots ..............43 Developmental Roots: A brief Perspective on West africa`s Geography..............45 Developmental Roots: The west African Sociocultural Environemnt.....................71 3. The triple Heritate ...........97 Historical Roots........99 Childhood and Human Development in west African Cultures..................141 4. The Ecocultural Framework .............165 Conceptualizing developmental Research in Ecocultural context ...................167 Cross-Cultural Developmental Psychology...............189 Thoughts on Developmental Research in the Third World ................209 Concluding statement .................225