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1. Caring For Kids

   A Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers

   By Rodney R Cocking, Richard J. Altenbaugh, David E. Engel, Don T. Martin

   The official school drop-out figure in the US in recent years has been 25 per cent of the cohort. Estimates from large cities are often double these rates, and in some areas 60 per cent or worse. This text focuses on this problem in US schools, but from an unusual perspective. It is a study gained...

   Published June 4th 1995 by Routledge
2. Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

   Edited by Patricia M. Greenfield, Rodney R. Cocking

   This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts...

   Published May 31st 1994 by Psychology Press
3. The Development and Meaning of Psychological Distance

   Edited by Rodney R. Cocking, K. Ann Renninger, Ann Renninger

   One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in mental capacity and struggling to define self, behaviors are also being learned whose function is to integrate self into a social network, which often...

   Published February 28th 1993 by Psychology Press
4. Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics

   Edited by Rodney R. Cocking, Jose P. Mestre

   Series: Psychology of Education and Instruction Series

   The combined impact of linguistic, cultural, educational and cognitive factors on mathematics learning is considered in this unique book. By uniting the diverse research models and perspectives of these fields, the contributors describe how language and cognitive factors can influence mathematical...

   Published December 31st 1987 by Routledge