David Elkind
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David Elkind is an author and child psychologist. 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 somewhat distort the smooth development of learning. He is associated with the belief of decline of social markers. Here are some other books he has written: Ties that Stress: the new family Imbalance (1994) All Grown Up and No Place To Go (1988) Reinventing Childhood (1988)
external links http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=delkind a profile about him
| Preceded by Docia Zavitkovsky |
President of the
National Association for the Eduction of Young Children |
Succeeded by Ellen Galinsky |
