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Gee, James Paul – Teachers College Press, 2017
This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process--human development. Gee argues that children will need to be resilient,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Change, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Principles
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Long, Barbara H.; Henderson, Edmund H. – Elementary School Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Children, Elementary Education, Family Life
Clarken, Rodney H. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper will present evidence to support ontogenetic and phylogenetic parallels and draw from these comparisons to further illuminate our understanding of micro and macro human development. Individual and collective stages of physical, psychological and spiritual development will be compared and their homologous structures examined.…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Developmental Stages, Individual Development, Physical Development
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bradley, Robert H.; Hofferth, Sandra; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2000
Discusses how social trends changed father involvement and family life, and in turn affected children's and fathers' developmental trajectories. Examines how today's children will construct expectations about fathers' and mothers' roles. Maintains that a life-span approach considers the broader sociohistorical context in which fatherhood develops.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Context Effect