Child welfare and development : a Japanese case study
"Sachiko Bamba and Wendy L. Haight provide an in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan. Th eir innovative research program combines strategies from developmental psychology, ethnography, and...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Child-rearing at a residential child care institution: watching with long eyes
- 2. Japanese contexts and concepts : Jidou Yougo Shisetsu, Ibasho and Mimamori
- 3. The research program
- 4. A developmental goal for maltreated children : Ibasho creation
- 5. Challenges to maltreated children's Ibasho creation
- 6. Socialization practices underlying Ibasho creation : Mimamori
- 7. Children's lives and experiences of Ibasho and Mimamori
- 8. Mr Watanabe's responses to the intervention
- 9. Reflections on some challenges of field research
- 10. The emerging child welfare context of Jidou Yougo Shisetsu
- 11. Conclusion : some lessons for culturally-sensitive child welfare