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Spencer, John P.; Clearfield, Melissa; Corbetta, Daniela; Ulrich, Beverly; Buchanan, Patricia; Schoner, Gregor – Child Development, 2006
This paper is in memory of Esther Thelen, who passed away while President of the Society for Research in Child Development. A survey of Esther Thelen's career reveals a trajectory from early work on simple movements like stepping, to the study of goal-directed reaching, to work on the embodiment of cognition, and, ultimately, to a grand theory of…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Cognitive Development, Children, Child Development
Carlson, Nancy A., Ed. – 1976
Presented is the final report of a project concerned with understanding adaptive behavior and functioning in preschool children with particular individual characteristics which may become handicapping conditions. A socio-ecological model of the development of adaptive functioning is presented which focuses on the structure of the conditions in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Child Development