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David Elkind

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March 11, 1931

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Social Sciences, Parenting & Families

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David Elkind is an American child psychologist and author. His groundbreaking books The Hurried Child and Miseducation informed early childhood education professionals of the possible dangers of "pushing down" the elementary curriculum into the very early years of a child's life. By doing so, he argued, teachers and parents alike could lapse into developmentally inappropriate instructional and learning practices that may distort the smooth development of learning. He is associated with the belief of decline of social markers.

He also wrote Ties that Stress: The New Family Imbalance (1994), All Grown Up and No Place To Go (1988), and Reinventing Childhood (1988). His most recent article titled, "Can We Play?", is featured in Greater Good maga...more

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Books by David Elkind

Average rating: 3.73 · 602 ratings · 122 reviews · 29 distinct works

	The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon 3.70 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children 3.68 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk 3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	All Grown Up And No Place To Go: Teenagers In Crisis, Revised Edition 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	A Sympathetic Understanding Of The Child: Birth To Sixteen 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Child Development And Education: A Piagetian Perspective 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Environment, Heredity, & Intelligence 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969	My rating:
	Parents' Guide to Raising Kids Who Love to Learn: Infant to Grade School 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989	My rating: