Commentary by Dr. Katie McMillan Culp. The monograph Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums task of examining connections among young children’s exploration and explanation of gear exhibits in three children’s museums, parents’ interventions during…
Developmental Science Research with Children’s Museums, Not Just at Them | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Catherine A. Haden. In the midst of renewed calls for bringing developmental science out of the laboratory and into the real world, Callanan, Legare, Sobel et al…
Integrating Sociocultural and Constructivist Perspectives on Young Children’s Causal Learning | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Robert B. Ricco. Studies of young children’s causal learning in museums and other informal settings provide an important counterpoint to more laboratory-based, rational constructivist inquiries. In their monograph…
Challenges of Modeling Continuity and Change in Children’s Seriation and Ordinal Understanding | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. David W. Braithwaite. The monograph by McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019) describes a series of experiments providing evidence for discontinuity between ages 5 and 7 in children’s performance on seriation and ordinal understanding…
Structuralism, Constructivism, and Information Processing: Ontological Compatibilities and Incompatibilities | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. David C. Witherington. At the conceptual heart of their monograph, McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019) confront the question of compatibility between Piagetian structuralism and constructivism. On the one hand…
Size Sequencing: Increasingly Important for Theory, Research, and Practice | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Douglas H. Clements. Despite a long-standing interest in young children’s development of basic cognitive competencies and their learning of mathematics, my initial reactions to the title of The Development of Size Sequencing…
Challenges in Understanding the Emergence of Size Sequencing Skills: Models, Structures, and Educational Tools
Authors’ Response to Commentaries on the 84.4 issue of Monographs. We thank the authors who wrote commentaries on our SRCD Monograph. These commentaries reveal colleagues’ deep reflection on the monograph by…
A Developmental Science of Politics: How Research with Adolescents has Expanded the Meaning of Politics
Commentary by Dr. Constance Flanagan. Scholarship on civic/political engagement as a domain of adolescent development has surged over the past few decades. However, as Patterson et al. (2019) point…
Making Children’s Rights and Participation Central in Children’s Political Development
Commentary by Drs. Martin D. Ruck and Jennifer Tang. In the Patterson et al. (2019) monograph, Toward a Developmental Science of Politics, the authors make a strong case for establishing…
Pitfalls along the Path toward a Developmental Science of Politics
Commentary by Dr. Susan Welch. As a political scientist, I find the Patterson et al. (2019) monograph, Toward a Developmental Science of Politics, of considerable interest. Their review of earlier…