Essay Instructions: Learning Goals
1. Understand the multiple facets of child development: physical, cognitive, personality, moral, social-emotional, identity, and spiritual development.
2. Understand stage theory, developmental norms, and critical periods.
3. Be familiar with the history and changing perspectives in the field of child development.
4. Understand and be conversant in the important issues in child development, such as health, nutrition, parenting, caretaking, schooling, resilience, gender, and cultural and ethnic diversity.
5. Become familiar with current research and controversies in the field.
Overview Paper
For the Overview, my goal is to:
? Critically analyze the history of this field.
? Comparing and contrasting theories of child development.
Resources
Dependent on the availability of the reading materials, below is the list of resources for possible readings:
Cohen, D. Observing and recording the behavior of young children 4th ed. New York: Teachers College Press.
Crain, W. D. (1999). Theories of development: Concepts and applications 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Prentice Hall College Division.
Gesell, A., & Ilg, F.L. (1949). Child development: An introduction to the study of human growth. New York: Harper & Row.
Junn, E.N., & Boyatzis, C.J. (Ed.s). (2000). Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 00/01. New YorK: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Lefrancois, G. (2000). Of children (9th ed.). Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth.
Lefrancois, G. (1999). Psychology for Teaching (10th ed.). Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth.
Shaffer, D. R. ( 1999 ). Developmental Psychology: Childhood & Adolescence 5th Ed.
Ulijasjek, S., Johnson, F., and Preece, M. (ed.s). (1998). Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wood, C. (1997). Yardsticks: Yardsticks : Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 : A Resource for Parents and Teachers. Greenfield, MA: Northeast Foundation for Children.
Practical, useful, well-organized resource.
Infancy and Early Childhood
Ainsworth, M. D., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bowlby, J. (1990). A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human
development. New York: Basic Books.
Brazelton, T. B., & Greenspan, S. I. (2000). The Irreducible Needs of Children: What
Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
Carlsson-Paige, N., & Levin, D. E. (1987). The war play dilemma. New York: Teachers College Press.
Dunn, J. (1988). The beginnings of social understanding. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Montessori, M. (1967). The absorbent mind 6th Ed.(Claude A. Claremont, Trans.). Madras, India: Kalakshetra Publications. (Original work published in 1949)
Montessori’s theory of stages, including psychological, language, and physical development .
Brain and Neurological Development
Eliot, L. (1999). What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. New York: Bantam.
LeDoux, J. (1996). The emotional brain. New York: Touchstone.
Makes brain functions understandable with conversational language and simple diagrams.
Shonkoff, J. P. & Phillips, D. A. (Ed.s). (2000). From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
Cognitive Development
Damon, W. & Hart, D. 1(988). Self Understanding in Childhood and Adolescence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children. New York: International
Universities Press.
Piaget, J. (1970). Genetic Epistemology. New York: W.W. Norton
Piaget, J., & Inhelder, B. (1969). The psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books.
Culture
Azibo, D. (1996). African psychology in historical perspective. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
Edited volume of chapters by Akbar, Phillips, Stewart, Carruthers, and others. Highly recommended.
Gardiner, H.W., Mutter, J. D., & Kosmitzki, C. (1997). Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Cross-cultural perspectives on development: physical, cognitive, personality, and gender.
Shujaa, M.J.(1995). Too much schooling, too little education; a paradox of black life in white societies. Trenton, NJ Africa World Press
Suarez-Orozco, C., & Suarez-Orozco,, M.M. (2001). Children of Immigration (The
Developing Child). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tatum, B.D. (1999). Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?: And other conversations about race. New York: Basic Books.
Education
Barnett, W. S. (1996). Lives in the balance: Age-27 benefit-cost analysis of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program (Monographs of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, 11). Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press.
Elkind, D. 1993. Images of the young child: collected essays on development and education. Washington, DC: NAEYC.
Essays by the author of The Hurried Child.
Hohmann, M. & Weikar, D. P. (1995). Educating Young Children: Active Learning Practices forPreschool and Child Care Programs. Ypsilanti, MI: High Scope Press.
Kamii, C. 1982. Number in Preschool and Kindergarten: Educational Implications of Piaget's Theory. Washington, DC: NAEYC.
Applying theory to practice.
Family
Cabrera, N. J., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Bradley, R. H., Hofferth, S. & Lamb, M. E. (2000). Fatherhood in the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71, 127-136.
Cline, F., & Fay, J. (1990). Parenting with Love and Logic. Colorado: Pinon Press.
Fine, M. J., & Carlson, C. (Eds.). (1992). The handbook of family-school intervention: A systems perspective. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Lamb, M.E. (Ed.). (1997). The role of the father in child development 3rd ed. New York: Wiley.
Parke, Ross D. Fatherhood. (1996). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Gender
Garbarino, J. (1999). Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them.
New York: The Free Press.
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women’s
development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, MA.
Kindlon, D., & Thompson, M. (1999). Raising Cain: Protecting the emotional life of
boys. New York: Ballantine.
MacCoby, E.E. (1999). The Two Sexes : Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. :Belknap.
Language Development
Bloom, P. (2000). How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
De Boysson-Bardies, B. (1999). How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.M. B. DeBevoise, Translator.
Moral Development
Damon, W. (1989). The moral child: Nurturing children's natural moral growth. New
York: The Free Press.
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's
development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Gilligan, C., & Wiggins, G. (1988). The origins of morality in early childhood
relationships. In C. Gilligan, J. V. Ward, & J. M. Taylor (Ed.s), Mapping the moral
domain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Physical Development
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NICHDhttp://www.nichd.nih.gov/
Tamborlane, W. V. (Ed.). (1997). The Yale guide to children’s nutrition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Spock, B. (1946). Baby and child care. New York: Pocket Books.
Resilience
Brooks, R.B. (1994). Children at risk: Fostering resilience and hope. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64, 545-553.
Emery, R. E., & Forehand, R. (1996). Parental divorce and children’s well-being: A focus on resilience. In R. J. Haggerty, L. R. Sherrod, N. Garmezy, & M. Rutter (Ed.s). Stress, risk and resilience in children and adolescents: Processes, mechanisms, and interventions (pp. 64-99).
Neighbors, B.; Forehand, R.; & McVicar, D. (1993). Resilient adolescents and
interpersonal conflict. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63, 462-471.
Werner, E. E. (1989). High-risk children in young adulthood: A longitudinal study from birth to 32 years. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 59, 72-81.
Werner, E. E., & Smith, R.S. (1992). Overcoming the odds: High risk children from birth to adulthood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Social and Emotional Development
Bandura, A. (1967). The role of modeling processes in personality development. In W. W. Hartup & N. L. Smothergill (Ed.s). The young child: Reviews of research (pp. 42- 67). Washington, DC: NAEYC.
Erikson, E. H. (1963). Childhood and society (2nd ed.). New York: Norton.
Erikson, E. H. (1980). Identity and the life cycle (2d ed.). New York: Norton.
Freud, S. (1949). An outline of psychoanalysis (J. Strachey, Trans.). New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published in 1940)
Kegan, R. (1982). The evolving self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Lefkowitz, M. M., Eron, L. D., Walder, L. O., & Huesmann, L. R. (1977). Growing up to
be violent: A longitudinal study of the development of aggression. NY: Pergamon
Press.
Cohen, J. (Ed.). (1999). Educating minds and hearts: Social emotional learning and the passage into adolescence. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.