Commentary by Dr. Audun Dahl and Marie Grace S. Martinez. If we wanted to determine whether human nature is good or evil, it would have been…
Charting and changing developmental pathways | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Debra J. Pepler. With their longitudinal research on the development of prosocial and aggressive behavior, Hay and colleagues (2021) provide a developmental framework for understanding prosocial and aggressive…
Contributions of Early Parenting in the Development of Self-Regulation, Prosocial, and Aggressive Behavior | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Daniel S. Shaw. In many ways the monograph written by Hay and colleagues (2021) represents a landmark contribution to our understanding of children’s early social development. Whereas…
50 Years of Research to Improve Preschool Curricula: Is there Progress? | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Karen L. Bierman. This thoughtful and comprehensive monograph by Kimberly Nesbitt and Dale Farran (2021) comes at an opportune time for the study of curricula in early childhood education (ECE). Addressing…
Drawing General Conclusions from Null Effects of a Prekindergarten Curriculum: Challenges and Solutions | Commentary
Commentary by Drs. Tutrang Nguyen and Drew H. Bailey. In their monograph, Nesbitt and Farran (2021) use the Tools of the Mind curriculum as a case study for evaluating the effects of intentional, scripted prekindergarten curricula. Despite expectations…
Contemplating Goals and Strategies of Prekindergarten Programs across Nations and Programs | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Tom Lowrie. Nesbitt and Farran (2021) undertook an ambitious task to develop and assess preschool learning and engagement in their monograph. The academic field of early childhood education walks a delicate line between…
Lessons from Youth in Northern Ireland: Building Measures, Methods, and Interventions | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. J. Lawrence Aber. I remember being a doctoral student of Edward Zigler’s at Yale in the 1970s and learning for the first time about the emerging work of Urie Bronfenbrenner at Cornell…
The Promise of Multisystem Research on Risk and Resilience in Development | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Ann S. Masten. Multisystem perspectives and methods are essential for understanding and countering the challenges posed to child development and wellbeing by political violence, as well as by…
Individual Lives and Social History: Extending the Lessons of Macrosystem Research beyond Northern Ireland | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Andres Molano. In the SRCD Monograph, Townsend, Taylor, Merrilees, Furey, Goeke-Morey, Shirlow, and Cummings (2020) explore how the longitudinal associations between sectarian violence and emotional insecurity are…
Can Conceptions of Respect Be Useful in Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination? | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Christia Spears Brown. In the Monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang focus on how children conceptualize the complex feeling of respect, how this differs across childhood and adolescence, and…