Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics

by Keating, Daniel P.; Hertzman, Clyde

• ISBN13: 9781572304543
• ISBN10: 1572304545
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Univ. of Toronto, Canada. Presents findings on human development as an individual and a popula- tion phenomenon. Topics include links between socioeconomic status, achievement, and health; impact of early experience on brain and behavioral development; and the development of new kinds of learning environments. For professionals.

Author Biography

Daniel P. Keating, PhD, Department of Human Development and
Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Table of Contents

Modernity's Paradox	1	(18)
Daniel P. Keating
Clyde Hertzman
PART I. THE GRADIENT EFFECT IN DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH	19	(132)
Population Health and Human Development	21	(20)
Clyde Hertzman
Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills	41	(14)
Chris Power
Clyde Hertzman
When Children's Social Development Fails	55	(17)
Richard E. Tremblay
Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of Families, Schools, and Communities	72	(22)
J. Douglas Willms
Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for Adults?: Achievement and Health of Children in the United States	94	(31)
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Greg J. Duncan
Pia Rebello Britto
Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and Their Responsiveness to Intervention during Early Childhood	125	(26)
Robbie Case
Sharon Griffin
Wendy M. Kelly
PART II. FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES: BIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT	151	(84)
Mechanisms of Brain Development: Neuronal Sculpting by the Physical and Social Environment	153	(32)
Max S. Cynader
Barrie J. Frost
Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys	185	(16)
Stephen J. Suomi
Psychosocial Factors and Psychoneuroimmunology within a Lifespan Perspective	201	(19)
Christopher L. Coe
Individual Pathways in Competence and Coping: From Regulatory Systems to Habits of Mind	220	(15)
Daniel P. Keating
Fiona K. Miller
PART III. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE LEARNING SOCIETY	235	(56)
The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda	237	(14)
Daniel P. Keating
Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and Work	251	(23)
Thomas P. Rohlen
Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations	274	(17)
Marlene Scardamalia
Carl Bereiter
PART IV. THE ECOLOGY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FOR A LEARNING SOCIETY	291	(57)
Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches	293	(18)
David R. Offord
Helen Chmura Kraemer
Alan E. Kazdin
Peter S. Jensen
Richard Harrington
J. Samuel Gardner
The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1,2,3 Go! Project Camil Bouchard	311	(11)
``It Takes a Village...,'' and New Roads to Get There	322	(15)
Alan R. Pence
Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations	337	(11)
Daniel P. Keating
References	348	(47)
Index	395