Developmentalism in Early Childhood and Middle Grades Education

1. General Introduction Developmentalism and the Need for Critical Conversations within and across the Fields
Kyunghwa Lee, Mark D. Vagle

Part I. Are They Ready Yet?

2. What’s More Important: Numbers or Shoes? Readiness, Curriculum, and Nonsense in a Rural Preschool
Amy Noelle Parks, Sarah Bridges-Rhoads

3. Who is Normal? Who is Abnormal? Rethinking Child Development from a Cultural Psychological Perspective
Kyunghwa Lee

4. Being Present in the Middle School Years
Hilary G. Conklin

5. Am I a Novice Teacher? The Voices of Induction Teachers in a Preschool
Su Kyoung Park, Amy Noelle Parks

6. Responsivity rather than Readiness
M. Elizabeth Graue

Part II. Responsive to What?

7. Pursuing an Answerable Education for Young Adolescents: Implications for Critical Middle Grades Literacy Teacher Education
Mark D. Vagle

8. Black Adolescent Identity, Double-Consciousness, and a Sociohistorically Constructed Adolescence
Lisa Harrison

9. Fourteen is the New Thirty: Adolescent Girls, their Bodies, and Sexuality
Hilary E. Hughes

10. The SMART Board as an Adolescent Classroom Technology
Sarah Bridges-Rhoads

11. A Critical Perspective on Human Development: Implications for Adolescence, Classroom Practice, and Middle School Policy
Enora R. Brown

Part III. Conversations across Fields

12. A Schismatic Family and a Gated Community?
Mark D. Vagle, Amy Noelle Parks

13. Walking the Borderland
Hilary G. Conklin, Kyunghwa Lee

Avainsanat: Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Educational Policy and Politics, Philosophy of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership