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David Elkind (born March 11, 1931) is an Americanchildpsychologist and author.
Elkind and his family relocated to California when he was a teenager. He studied at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 and Doctorate in Philosophy in 1955. David also earned an honoraryDoctorate in Science at theRhode Island College in 1987.
A professor atTufts University, his books —The Hurried Child,The Power of Play andMiseducation — informedearly childhood education professionals of the possible dangers of incorporating elementary schoolcurriculum into the very early years of a child's life.[1] 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 ofsocial markers.[2]
David Elkind is professor emeritus of Child Development atTufts University[3] inMedford, Massachusetts. He was formerly professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Education at theUniversity of Rochester.
Elkind obtained his doctorate at UCLA and then spent a year asDavid Rapaport's research assistant at theAusten Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1964–65 he was aNational Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow atPiaget's Institut d'Epistemologie Genetique in Geneva. His research has been in the areas of perceptual, cognitive and social development where he has attempted to build upon the research and theory of Jean Piaget.
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.[4] He lectures regularly in the United States, Canada and abroad. He has appeared onThe Today Show, The CBS Morning News, Twenty/Twenty, Nightline, Donahue, andThe Oprah Winfrey Show. He has been profiled inPeople andBoston Magazine. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series, Kids These Days. He is past president of theNational Association for the Education of Young Children.
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 inJack and Jill, biographies of famous psychologists in theNew York Times Magazine, as well as presentations of his own work inGood Housekeeping,Parade andPsychology 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, andMiseducation.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 ofA 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 ofAll Grown Up and No Place to Go andReinventing Childhood: Raising and Educating Children in a Changing World appeared in 1998. A third edition ofThe Hurried Child came out 2001 and the 25th anniversary edition was published in 2007 along with his newest bookThe Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally.
Elkind was a contributing editor toParents Magazine.
Elkind is married to Debbie Elkind, lives on Cape Cod, and has three sons and four grandchildren.
| Preceded by | President of theNational Association for the Education of Young Children 1986–1988 | Succeeded by |
