Discovering successful pathways in children's development:
Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life Conference
The MacArthur
Foundation Research Network on
Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood
Thursday evening, January 25, 2001 5 - 6:30 PM
Cocktails and dinner, hotel
Thursday evening, January 25, 2001 6:30 – 7 PM
Ways to find successful pathways in children’s development: Introduction to the conference.
Thomas S. Weisner
Thursday evening, January 25, 2001 7 – 9 PM
Family and intervention studies: Inclusion and “multiple worlds” in research and practice.
Catherine Cooper, organizer
Sara Harkness, Marcia Hughes, Karen Ripoll, and Beth Muller. University of Connecticut. Entering the developmental niche: The first year of experience with inner-city Hartford children and families in UConn's GEAR UP program.
Catherine Cooper, Jane Brown, Margarita Azmitia, and Gabriela
Chavira, University of California at Santa Cruz. Mexican immigrant families, schools,community programs, and the good path
of life
Discussants:
Mica Pollock, Stanford University. Civil Rights
And Academic Development: Ensuring Equality For Individual Children Who Must
Be Protected Because They Are Group Representatives
Continental Breakfast… Friday morning 8:00 – 8:30 AM, hotel
Friday Morning, January 26, 8:30 – 10:30
Using mixed methods in social experiments to understand children's pathways.
Greg Duncan, organizer
Jeffrey Kling, Princeton University and National Bureau
of Economic Research, and Jeff Liebman, Harvard University and National Bureau
of Economic Research. Bullets don’t got no name: Consequences of fear in
the ghetto.
Greg Duncan and Christina Gibson, Northwestern University. Qualitative/Quantitative
Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation.
Aletha Huston, University of Texas. Mixed Methods in Studies of Social Experiments for Parents in Poverty: Commentary
Tom Brock, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Friday morning, January 26, 11 – 1 PM
Ethnicity and the development of ethnic identity in childhood.
Diane Scott-Jones, organizer
Deborah Johnson, Michigan State University. The ecology of children's racial coping: Family,
school, and community influences
Rubén Rumbaut, Michigan State University and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. Sites of belonging: Shifts in ethnic self-identities among adolescent children of immigrants
Tables for this paper (in Word format)
Tables for this paper in PDF format
Discussants:
Diane Scott-Jones, Boston College
William Cross, City University of New York
Lunch 1 to 2 PM hotel
Friday afternoon, January 26, 2 – 4:30 PM
Historicizing Children’s Development: A Heroic and Vexing Project.
John Modell, organizer
Stephen Lassonde and Linda Mayes, Yale University. Looking in and seeing out: Contexts of a longitudinal study in the age of Eisenhower.
J. J. Fueser and Shafali Lal, Yale University. ”A
matter of balance…” Investigating the cultural work of an experiment: The
case of the authoritative parent.
Hanne Haavind, University of Oslo, Norway. Contesting and recognizing
historical changes and selves in development—methodological challenges.
Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania. Discussion paper for Lassonde and Mayes, Fueser and Lal, Haavind
Friday evening, January 26
Free time. Enjoy dinner at one of the many restaurants in the Santa Monica Promenade and beach front.
Continental Breakfast… Saturday morning 8:00 – 8:30 AM, hotel
Saturday morning, January 27, 8:30 – 10:30 AM
Pathways through classrooms, schools and neighborhoods.
Phyllis Blumenfeld, organizer
Claude Goldenberg University of California at Long Beach,
Ron Gallimore, University of California at Los Angeles, Leslie Reese, UCLA,
and Ed Lopez, UCLA. Using Mixed Methods to Explore Latino children's
literacy development.
Heather Weiss, Harvard University, Holly Kreider, Rebecca
Hencke, Ellen Mayer, Peggy Vaughan, &
Kristina Pinto, Harvard Family Research Project, with editorial assistance
by Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Links: Employment and
family involvement in education among low-income mothers and a mixed-method
analytic story.
Lois-ellin Datta, Datta Analysis. Seeking the best of both evaluation worlds in studying pathways through middle childhood: the ABT evaluation of the Comer approach.
Discussants:
Ron Marx, University of Michigan
Jacque Eccles, University of Michigan
Saturday morning, January 27, 11 - 1 PM
Culture and developmental pathways: New methods and findings.
Tom Weisner, organizer
Tom Fricke, University of Michigan. Taking Culture Seriously: Making the Social Survey Ethnographic.
Debra Skinner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Linda Burton, Pennsylvania State University, and Betsy Manlove, Pennsylvania State University. An ethnographic study of parents' constructions of developmental opportunities in contexts of poverty and disability.
Accompanying slides (in Powerpoint)
Click here for PDF version of paper
Discussants:
Tom Weisner, University of California at Los Angeles.
Lunch 1 –2 PM, hotel
Saturday, January 27, 2-3:30 PM
Saturday, January 28, 1 PM. Concluding comments and discussion:
Linda Burton, The Pennsylvania State University
Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois