I. Developmental Health
1. Modernity's Paradox, Keating and Hertzman
2. Population Health and Human Development, Hertzman
3. Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills, Power and Hertzman
4. When Children's Social Development Fails, Tremblay
5. Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of
Families, Schools, and Communities, Willms
6. Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for
Adults? Achievement and Health of Children in the United States,
Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, and Rebello Britto
7. Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and Their
Responsiveness to Intervention during Early Childhood, Case and
Griffin
II. Fundamental Processes: Biology and Development
8. Mechanisms of Brain Development: Sculpting by the Physical and
Social Environment, Cynader and Frost
9. Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community
Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys, Suomi
10. Psychosocial Processes and Psychneuroimmunology within a
Lifespan Perspective, Coe
11. The Organization of Regulatory Systems from Infancy to Early
Childhood: Habits of Mind in Competence and Coping, Keating and
Miller
III. Human Development and the Learning Society
12. The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda, Keating
13. Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and
Work, Rohlen
14. Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations, Scardamalia and
Bereiter
IV. The Ecology of Child Development: Lessons for a Learning
Society
15. Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of
Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches, Offord, Kraemer,
Kazdin, Jensen, Harrington, and Gardner
16. The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case
of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1, 2, 3, GO Project, Bouchard
17. It Takes a Village..., and New Roads to Get There, Pence
18. Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations, Keating
Daniel P. Keating, PhD, Department of Human Development and
Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This book is perfect for my new advanced undergraduate seminar on
contemporary social problems. It goes well beyond other texts that
trace the connections between systemic social issues and human
developmental processes: social, biological, and educational
mechanisms are clearly delineated and substantiated with data from
many sources. The volume is timely, important, and provides crucial
information that increases our understanding of where we are (and
why), and where we need to go. It can be used as a text for courses
in human development, sociology, urban studies, and economics. The
interdisciplinary focus is certainly welcome and needed to
elucidate the complexity of these issues. --Cynthia Garcia Coll,
PhD, Professor of Education, Psychology, and Pediatrics, Chair,
Education Department, Brown University
Historically unprecedented challenges to healthy development exist
today across the lifespan, in industrialized and nonindustrialized
nations alike. In this timely and unique book, a distinguished
interdisciplinary group of scholars proposes a new model for
understanding the character and bases of healthy human development.
They also point the way toward social policies and programs that
will promote positive outcomes for the diverse children of our
modern world. Scholars and teachers within the fields of education,
psychology, public health, and public policy will be attracted to
the compelling vision for healthy development presented in this
book. Throughout, scientific findings and applications are
precisely, convincingly, and powerfully presented. --Richard M.
Lerner, PhD, Boston College, Center for Child, Family and Community
Partnerships, Chestnut Hill, MA
This is an enormously useful volume for those wanting to know not
only the 'whats' but also the 'hows' of developmental health. There
is nothing else like it. It contains a true wealth of insights and
data about the ways that social and biological forces conspire to
produce developmental differences. I found myself making copious
notes in the margins. This book should be required reading for
anyone teaching an upper-level or graduate course in developmental
psychology and public policy. Readers will appreciate the care the
authors take to render abstract biological concepts understandable.
--Stephen J. Ceci, PhD, The Helen L. Carr Professor of
Developmental Psychology, Department of Human Development, Cornell
University
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