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Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Learn about raising inclusive, antiracist children in an informed, actionable, and accountable way with this must-have guide from antiracist and anti-biased educator and advocate Britt Hawthorne. Raising inclusive, antiracist children is a noble goal for any parent, caregiver, or educator, but it can be hard to know where to start. In Raising Antiracist Children, Britt Hawthorne--a nationally recognized teacher and advocate--and her coauthor Natasha...
5) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating--and eerily timely--tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Language
English
Description
With the first edition of The Hurried Child, David Elkind called our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying our children through life. He showed that by blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expecting -- or imposing -- too much too soon, we force our kids to grow up too fast, to mimic adult sophistication while secretly yearning for innocence. In the more than two decades since, our society has inadvertently stepped up the...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Harris's startling assertion that parents have few "important long-term effects on the development of their children's personality" is at the heart of her analysis of the relative value of heredity vs. environment - the "nature vs. nurture" dichotomy.
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