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Introduction / T.S. Saraswathi -- Ecocultural perspective on human psychological development / John W. Berry -- Wanted, a contextualized psychology : plea for a cultural psychology based on action theory / Lutz H. Eckensberger -- Ontogeny as the interface between biology and culture : evolutionary considerations / Heidi Keller -- Theoretical frameworks in cross-cultural developmental psychology : an attempt at integration / Pierre R. Dasen -- Human development across cultures : a contextual-functional analysis and implications for interventions / Cigdem Kagiteibasi -- Individualism in a collective culture : a case of coexistence of opposites -- Conceptualizing human development and education in sub-Saharan Africa at the interface of indigenous and exogenous influences / A. Bame Nsamenang -- Modernization and changes in adolescent social life / Alice Schlegel -- Adolescence without family disengagement : the daily family lives of Indian middle class teenagers / Reed Larson, Suman Verma, Jodi Dworkin -- From research project to nationwide program : the mother-child education program of Turkey / Sevda Bekman -- Counting on everyday mathematics / Anita Rampal -- Current issues and trends in early childhood education / Lilian G. Katz.