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David Elkind

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March 11, 1931

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David Elkind is an American child psychologist and author. His groundbreaking books The Hurried Child and Miseducation informed early childhood education professionals of the possible dangers of "pushing down" the elementary curriculum into the very early years of a child's life. By doing so, he argued, teachers and parents alike could lapse into developmentally inappropriate instructional and learning practices that may distort the smooth development of learning. He is associated with the belief of decline of social markers.

He also wrote Ties that Stress: The New Family Imbalance (1994), All Grown Up and No Place To Go (1988), and Reinventing Childhood (1988). His most recent article titled, "Can We Play?", is featured in Greater Good maga ...more

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	The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children 3.86 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon 3.79 avg rating — 902 ratings — published 1981 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk 3.98 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis 3.97 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1984 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parenting on the Go: Birth to Six, A to Z 3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sympathetic Understanding of the Child: Birth to Sixteen (3rd Edition) 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Child Development and Education: A Piagetian Perspective 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giants in the Nursery: A Biographical History of Developmentally Appropriate Practice 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children and Adolescents: Interpretive Essays on Jean Piaget 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.”
― David Elkind

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“The transition is well explained by futurologist Alvin Toffler: “As work shifted out of the fields and the home, children had to be prepared for factory life. If young people could be prefitted in the industrial system, it would vastly ease the problems of industrial discipline later on. The result was another central structure of all [modern] societies: mass education.”2”
― David Elkind, The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

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“In the United States, the negative legacy of humanism and the reliance on books, recitation, and role learning have been difficult to overcome.”
― David Elkind, Giants in the Nursery: A Biographical History of Developmentally Appropriate Practice

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