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Land, Nicole; Vidotto, Danica – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This article investigates how particular conceptions of physical development (PD) are enacted in early childhood studies in Toronto, Canada. Following critical childhood studies scholars who emphasize the urgency of re-formulating relationships with taken-for-granted concepts in the field, we argue for a practice of noticing, tracing, naming, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Development, Child Development, Young Children
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Dorn, Lorah D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Woodward, Hermi Rojahn; Biro, Frank – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
This article addresses pragmatic issues regarding the assessment of puberty in research on adolescent health and development. Because pubertal processes have a major effect on physical, psychological, and social development, we posit that the assessment of pubertal status is at least as important as the specification of age for characterizing…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Puberty, Adolescent Development, Health