Child & Adolescent Development in Multilingual/Multicultural Contexts
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4667
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Children around the world grow up in a variety of multilingual and multicultural contexts that still largely go unexplored by developmental psychologists. Children in such contexts are usually the exceptions in developmental research, theory building, and policies oriented toward child welfare. The goal of this special issue is to expand our knowledge of the psychological strengths of growing up in contexts where two or more languages and/or cultures are commonplace. A positive psychology focus on resilience is of prime theoretical and practical interest in this special topic. For too long mainstream child and adolescent psychologists have pointed to cognitive, linguistic and socio-emotional deficiencies associated with exposure to more than a single language or culture during the early years of development or to difficulties involved in dual identity development, especially during adolescence. The focus of the traditional line of inquiry has centred on deficit models that devalue minority children who are typically bilingual and multicultural of necessity. Today there is a growing literature that acknowledges the strengths and assets inherent in being citizens in a globalized world that demands multilingualism as well as deep understanding of multiculturalism for successful living. We seek empirical, review or theory-based manuscripts that offer a positive asset based framework that increases our understanding of children and adolescents growing up in complex multilingual and multicultural communities.
Dr. Amado M. Padilla
Dr. Xinjie Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- child/adolescent development
- bi/multilingualism
- bi/multiculturalism
- identity
- resilience
- positive psychology
- assets
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