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This is a very exciting, promising time for the study of culture and human development. There are new approaches to understanding children in the developmental sciences, psychology, and the clinical professions. One change is toward understanding development as an ecoculturally organized, kkS project of families, parents, communities, and children themselves. Develop mental projects are organized around our efforts to achieve cultural goals for ourselves and our children, despite limited resources and constraints of all kinds. The goals of developmental projects are the figure, not mere back-ground, and so are the cultural pathways available to achieve these goals.