- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (25 Aug 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521337712
- ISBN-13: 978-0521337717
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,319,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What kinds of childbearing practices foster the development of helping, sharing, and other prosocial behaviours? What roles do biology and culture play in the development of prosocial behaviour? In this book, Nancy Eisenberg and Paul Mussen review and summarize scholarly research that has been devoted to the development of prosocial behaviour in children, and examine the variety of influences that contribute to children's prosocial development, including the media, parents, peers, biology, culture, personal characteristics, as well as situational determinants. The authors argue that prosocial behaviour can be learned and is modifiable, and they suggest ways that parents, teachers, and other can enhance prosocial development. In addition, the authors attempt to communicate the advances in the study of prosocial development that have taken place over the last decade. The book highlights some questions that have not yet been addressed adequately by researchers, and suggests areas for future work.
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When we open a newspaper or turn on the television or radio, we are bombarded with news about human violence, cruelty, and injustice: Racial conflict in South Africa, wars in Central America and the Middle East, terrorist attacks, hijackings, savage crimes - such are the recurring themes that dominate the news. Read the first page
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When we open a newspaper or turn on the television or radio, we are bombarded with news about human violence, cruelty, and injustice: Racial conflict in South Africa, wars in Central America and the Middle East, terrorist attacks, hijackings, savage crimes - such are the recurring themes that dominate the news. Read the first page
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Well documented research to consider in pro-child policies
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Eisenberg and Mussen's book is a refreshing look at what can go right with child development. The research and the ideas give professionals (teachers, mental health, social change advocates) and parents clear ideas about how to approach developing and encouraging prosocial, caring, sharing and empathic children. If many people, including politicians, seriously looked at the literature it would be much clearer about how to train and restructure institutions, schools, childcare centers and address world issues, and possibly what kind of refugee camps and IDP camps to fund and support. The uses of this kind of book could be profound or just shelved and forgotten.
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