Roer-Strier D, Rosenthal M K
Graduate Program in Early Childhood Studies, School of Social Work, The Hebrew University, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
Soc Work. 2001 Jul;46(3):215-28. doi: 10.1093/sw/46.3.215.
In recent years increasing attention has been paid to the significant roles of culture and socialization in child development. The conceptual framework presented in this article is derived from the fields of cross-cultural child development, immigration, and ethnic minority studies. The article focuses on the relationship between cultural contexts and images of an "adaptive adult," which is proposed as a guiding metaphor in the organization of child-rearing ideologies and practices, which in turn are influenced by the values, experience, culture, and behavior of socializing agents within a given culture. The article explains how this concept is rooted in past and future time orientations and in the duality of public and private cultures. The article also explores changes in images of the adaptive adult in interaction with ecological components. Examples from the authors' research in Israel, as well as the research of others, are cited. The article concludes with a general discussion of the potential contribution that this framework can make to social workers dealing with immigrant, migrant, and ethnic minority children and families.
近年来，文化和社会化在儿童发展中的重要作用越来越受到关注。本文提出的概念框架源自跨文化儿童发展、移民和少数民族研究领域。文章重点关注文化背景与“适应性成人”形象之间的关系，“适应性成人”被提议作为组织育儿观念和实践的指导隐喻，而育儿观念和实践又受到特定文化中社会化主体的价值观、经验、文化和行为的影响。文章解释了这一概念如何植根于过去和未来的时间取向以及公共文化和私人文化的二元性。文章还探讨了适应性成人形象在与生态成分相互作用中的变化。文中引用了作者在以色列的研究以及其他研究的例子。文章最后总体讨论了这一框架对处理移民、流动和少数民族儿童及家庭的社会工作者可能做出的贡献。
