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About the author
Robyn M. Holmes is a Professor of Psychology and associated faculty member in the History and Anthropology Department at Monmouth University. Her teaching and research interests reflect cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. She is the author of How Young Children Perceive Race (Sage, 1995), Fieldwork with Children (Sage, 2008), and Cultural Psychology: Exploring Culture and Mind in Diverse Cultural Communities (Oxford University Press, 2020). She has also written numerous articles and chapters on play and culture, play and early childhood, recess, sport, and development, which have appeared in the American Journal of Play, International Journal of Play, Play & Culture Studies, Children's Folklore Review, Perceptual Motor Skills, Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, and the Journal of Sport Behavior.
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine is Pearl S. Falk Professor of Human Development at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, and Professor Extraordinary of Developmental Psychology at Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo. His research interests include father-child relationships across cultures, mental health in Caribbean families and children, early childhood education in international perspective, and children's play across cultures. He has published several volumes on culture and development including Caribbean Psychology: Indigenous contributions to a global discipline (American Psychological Association, 2016) and Fathering in Cultural Contexts: Developmental and Clinical Issues (Routledge, 2019). He is currently Editor of the Caribbean Journal of Psychology.
Summary
With over twenty-five contributing authors, this volume investigates the connection between culture and children's schooling and learning experiences from multidisciplinary perspectives, diverse methodologies, and cross-cultural and culture specific approaches.
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Effective education of multicultural and cross-cultural populations is one of the profound challenges of our times. To help negotiate that challenge, the new book Culture, Schooling and Children's Learning Experiences by Robyn M. Holmes and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine gathers up-to-date policy and practice accounts from experts across the globe. The well-worn advice to "think global and act local" comprises a valuable lesson of the book: while there are recurring themes such as needed equity and reciprocity, the solutions must also honor learners' local culture, identity, and ways of learning. Used in receptive (early childhood) settings, play is highlighted as a vehicle for collaborative, mutually transformative education.
