David Elkind
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David Elkind (born March 11, 1931) is an American
Life
Elkind and his family relocated to California when he was a teenager. He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 and Doctorate in Philosophy in 1955. David also earned an honorary Doctorate in Science at the Rhode Island College in 1987.
A professor at
Professional positions
David Elkind is professor emeritus of Child Development at Tufts University[3] in Medford, Massachusetts. He was formerly professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Education at the University of Rochester.
Elkind obtained his doctorate at UCLA and then spent a year as
Elkind is on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, and is a consultant to state education departments as well as to government agencies and private foundations.
Publications
Elkind's bibliography now numbers close to 500 items and includes research, theoretical articles, book chapters and eighteen books. In addition he has published more popular pieces such as children's stories in Jack and Jill, biographies of famous psychologists in the New York Times Magazine, as well as presentations of his own work in Good Housekeeping, Parade and Psychology Today. Some of his recent articles include "Computers and Young Children," "The Authority of the Brain," "The Cosmopolitan School," "On Becoming a Grandfather," and "Thanks for the Memory: The Lasting Value of True Play."
Elkind is known for his books, The Hurried Child, The Power of Play, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, and Miseducation. Grandparenting: Understanding Today's Children was published in November 1989. Parenting Your Teenager and three additional books, Images of the Young Child; Understanding Your Child and a third edition of A Sympathetic Understanding of the Child: Birth to Sixteen appeared in 1993. Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance was published in 1994. A second edition of All Grown Up and No Place to Go and Reinventing Childhood: Raising and Educating Children in a Changing World appeared in 1998. A third edition of The Hurried Child came out 2001 and the 25th anniversary edition was published in 2007 along with his newest book The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally.
Elkind was a contributing editor to Parents Magazine.
Personal
Elkind is married to Debbie Elkind, lives on Cape Cod, and has three sons and four grandchildren.
See also
References
- ^ "What Research Says". Village Preschool of Portland. 2013-09-02. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
- ^ "David Elkind | Profile". Greater Good. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
- ^ David Elkind, Faculty profile, Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering
- ^ "David Elkind, Ph.D. | JCCF". www.journalismcenter.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
External links
- http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=delkind a profile of Elkind