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Category: Commentary

50 Years of Research to Improve Preschool Curricula: Is there Progress? | Commentary

February 16, 2021Commentary

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…

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Drawing General Conclusions from Null Effects of a Prekindergarten Curriculum: Challenges and Solutions | Commentary

February 16, 2021Commentary

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…

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Contemplating Goals and Strategies of Prekindergarten Programs across Nations and Programs | Commentary

February 16, 2021Commentary

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…

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Lessons from Youth in Northern Ireland: Building Measures, Methods, and Interventions | Commentary

November 13, 2020Commentary

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…

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The Promise of Multisystem Research on Risk and Resilience in Development | Commentary

November 13, 2020Commentary

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…

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Individual Lives and Social History: Extending the Lessons of Macrosystem Research beyond Northern Ireland | Commentary

November 13, 2020Commentary

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…

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Can Conceptions of Respect Be Useful in Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination? | Commentary

August 11, 2020Commentary

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…

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The Developmental Roots of Respect and its Role in Development | Commentary

August 11, 2020Commentary

Commentary by Dr. Jeremy I. M. Carpendale. Respect is an integral part of the social and emotional fabric of human interaction. In their monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang (2020) argue for the essential…

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Children’s Developing Respect: Looking to Future Research | Commentary

August 11, 2020Commentary

Commentary by Dr. Tracy L. Spinrad. In their Monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang argue that although philosophers and psychologists have often thought about the concept of respect, researchers have seldom studied…

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A Spotlight on Context in the Developmental Science of Civic Engagement | Commentary

May 12, 2020Commentary

Commentary by Dr. Kristine J. Ajrouch. Attention to how youth living in high poverty neighborhoods become engaged in civic life is an important and timely issue. The monograph…

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