The articles in this Special Section are based on contributions to an SRCD‐sponsored
invitational conference held in Victoria, Canada, in February 2009. This introductory article …

The Madrasa Resource Centers in East Africa have adapted features of Euro‐American
theory and practice into a service delivery system responding to local cultural and …

This article examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber et al.(2017) and
argues that there are scientific and ethical problems with such intervention efforts in applied …

Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To
demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but …

Moving beyond the “canned” lens on literacies dominant in contemporary literacy studies in
Malawi, this study connects theoretical perspectives on sensory and critical literacies to …

This chapter examines current views on intelligence and its assessment with a particular
focus on the cultural context. The topics to be addressed are discussed in three parts …

Gender in low-and middle-income countries GENDER IN LOW-AND MIDDLE-INCOME
COUNTRIES Marc H. Bornstein, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health …

United Nations agencies mandated to address the needs of children around the developing
(Majority) world, routinely create large global data sets mostly for purposes of surveillance …

Early research on child development in Africa was dominated by expatriates and was
primarily addressed to the topics of testing the cross‐cultural validity of theories developed …

Cultural communities define and promote human abilities they perceive to give expression
to their core values. Indigenous sub-Saharan African communities place a high premium …