3-136 - (Re-)Considering Culture and Human Development: Celebrating Jacqueline Goodnow

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Integrative Statement

Given SRCD’s commitment to cultural and contextual diversity, this is an appropriate moment for critical reflections on how culture has, and hasn’t, been incorporated into developmental inquiry over the past quarter-century. We will frame such reflections via two ‘book-end’ publications: The New Directions for Child Development monograph, “Cultural Practices as Contexts for Development” (Goodnow, Miller, and Kessel, 1995), and the chapter on “Children and Cultural Context” in the new Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (Goodnow and Lawrence, in press). The conversation will address these kinds of questions
• What have been the most fruitful conceptual frameworks for analyzing how culture contributes to the dynamic processes of human development?
• How to judge such frameworks, e.g., what particular new insights have those frameworks yielded?
• What methodological innovations have emerged in seeking to understand the role of culture in human development? What challenges have those innovations presented?
• What steps – conceptual, methodological, and institutional – might be necessary in shaping the next generation of research on culture and human development?
• Have current ‘cultural’ paradigms minimized or ignored dimensions of diverse socio-political-cultural life, for example, the normative- or value-laden assumptions of “development”, and issues of power and equity? How might those be best analyzed and studied?
Most importantly, this Roundtable will celebrate the contributions of Jacqueline Goodnow (1924-2014) to the overall field and honor the manifold ways she enriched the lives of the panelists and many others in the international developmental community.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Moderator

• Frank S Kessel, Univ of New Mexico

Panelists

• Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Jeanette Alice Lawrence, 10Charge

• Peggy J Miller, University of Illinois

• Richard A Shweder, University of Chicago