The Child In The City Changes And Challenges

This volume evaluates the basis of current issues of public concern and debate and constructs an agenda for future research, policy, and practice concerning children and families.

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior, Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society, Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition, he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic, cultural, and racial issues.

Duhl draws on the experience of social entrepreneurs worldwide to show how to map problems and develop the strategy and tactics by which new ways of thinking and action emerge.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.