Afterword

The author commends this collection of papers on applied cognitive psychology and the Guest Editor's distinction between basic, ecologically valid and applied research. The relationship of these three varieties of research is discussed in relation to the findings reported by the various contributors to this Special Issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology.     

Afterword: Playing off ideology

Born 1918, essayist and specialist in Oriental studies. Studied philosophy and literature at MIFLI during the mid-thirties. Imprisoned in the camps after the Second World War and rehabilitated in 1953. Having participated in the protest against the injustices of the Ginzburg trial in 1968, Pomeranc was himself awarded the laurels of dissidence. With the exception of a small number of articles and monographs published within the Soviet Union in the early sixties (on aspects of oriental religions) his writings have appeared abroad, among them:Neopublikovannoe (Unpublished Writings), Frankfurt, 1972;elovek bez prilagatel'nogo (A Man without Adjectives). Published here are partially reconstructed excerpts from, and new comentary to, essays published in the seventies intamizdat.     

Afterword: new directions in research with immigrant families and their children

Although migration is fundamentally a family affair, the family, as a unit of analysis, has been understudied both by scholars of migration and by developmental psychologists. Researchers have often struggled to conceptualize immigrant children, adolescents, and their families, all too often giving way to pathologizing them, ignoring generational and ethnic distinctions among immigrant groups, stereotyping immigrants as "problem" or (conversely) "model" minorities, and overlooking the complexity of race, gender, documentation, and language in their lives. In addition, contexts other than the family remain understudied. In this afterword, the authors examine these issues, the contributions of the chapters in this volume to understanding them, and their implications for research and theory within the field of developmental science.