ISBN:
9781009304252
,
9781009304245
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 320 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thompson, Ross A. The brain development revolution
DDC:
305.237072
Keywords:
Child development Research
;
Brain Growth
;
Research
;
Communication in science
;
Science and state
;
Child & developmental psychology
;
Entwicklungspsychologie
;
Medienwissenschaften
;
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General
;
Public Health und Präventivmedizin
;
Pädiatrie
Abstract:
"Today we perceive children and the influences on them with regard to their developing brains. This book documents how brain development became the dominant lens for understanding children's development, the benefits and missed opportunities for children that resulted, and why brain development compels our attention"--
Abstract:
The science of human development informs our thinking about children and their development. The Brain Development Revolution asks how and why has brain development become the major lens for understanding child development, and its consequences. It describes the 1997 I Am Your Child campaign that engaged public attention through a sophisticated media communications effort, a White House conference, and other events. It explores the campaign's impact, including voter initiatives to fund early childhood programs and a national campaign for prekindergarten education, but also several missed opportunities. The study examines why brain development compels our attention, why we are - but shouldn't be - neurodeterminists, and the challenges of communicating developmental brain science. This book examines the framing of the brain development story, the selectivity of the messaging, and overpromising the results of early programs. Lastly, it discusses proposals for how science communication can be improved to better serve children and the public
Description / Table of Contents:
Science does not speak for itself -- The Supreme Court considers adolescence -- Dispatches from the laboratory -- I am your child -- "Follow the science" -- Framing developmental science -- Who speaks for developmental science?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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