Introduction: A Classroom Where Everyone Belongs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Watson
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
School Change ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Collaborative Process

Laura Ecken is introduced and the collaborative process is described in which Laura and I engaged to document the happenings in Laura’s classroom that eventually became the heart of this book. The chapter begins with a description of Laura’s efforts to win the trust of a very troubled and difficult student using Developmental Discipline, an approach to classroom management based on attachment theory. Laura’s school was engaged with the Child Development Project, a school change project that focused on children’s social and ethical as well as intellectual development. The chapter tells the story of Laura’s success with the student; her unhappiness with the school’s former controlling, assertive approach to classroom management and discipline; and her agreement to engage in a collaborative process to document her use of attachment theory to guide her approach to managing her classroom.

scholarly journals Mise au point d’exercices visant le développement d’habiletés interactives chez des stagiaires en enseignement

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-416
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Interactive Classroom ◽  
Operational Phase ◽  
Reflective Skills

This paper outlines the results of the operational phase of a research and development project (Harvey and Loiselle, 2009). It explains how practical exercises supporting the development of teacher trainees’ interactive classroom management skills were tested through a collaborative process and underscores the exercises’ potential to develop participants’ reflective skills. This research follows the work of authors who established close links between improvisation and teaching and of those who highlighted the benefits of an improv training program on the development of classroom management skills.

L'allevamento del bambino disabile: turbe dell'attaccamento e tratti disarmonici della personalitŕ

2009 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Annamaria Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Sick Child ◽  
Emotional Disturbances ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Disabled Children

- The attachment theory could be a useful framework for the understanding of the emotional disturbances in disabled children. Correlation between child development phase and mother's functioning in response to child's attachment needs after the severe distress generated in parents by a severe diagnosis can explain the development of functional defences in the child. These defences explain the frequency of disturbed traits in the little patients' personalities. The most suitable attitude which the treating team should hold and purpose is highlighted, since the team has to share with the parents the difficulties of rearing the sick child.

Developmental Perspectives on Parenting

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Rochelle F. Hentges ◽  
Meredith J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Reproductive Strategies ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Parenting Influences

This chapter discusses two leading middle-level theories within evolutionary psychology, which attempt to explain both how and why parenting influences child development across the life span. First, it presents an overview of one of the most influential evolutionary theories in developmental psychology: John Bowlby’s attachment theory. Attachment theory revolutionized the way people understand the nature of the parent–child bond, framing the parent as not just a provider of physical needs but also as a secure base for emotional and psychological needs. These early-life bonds between the caregiver and infant are further proposed to form the basis for relationship attachments across the life span. Next, the chapter addresses how competing strategies toward resource allocation can influence individual differences in parental investment and sensitivity. According to life history theory, differences in the caregiving environment, in turn, promote the formation of distinct reproductive strategies, resulting in behavioral, social, and physiological differences across child development.

scholarly journals Patriarchy and the Law of Adoption: Beneath the Best Interests of the Child

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrysha Bracco
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Current System ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Law ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the nature of adoption, its history and how it has evolved into the current system of Canadian adoption law. Originally adoption existed to serve the interests of the adopting family. Over time there was a shift in attitude, such that adoption was intended to serve the best interests of the child The author questions the current state of the law, its practices and whether it really serves those whom it is intended to serve. The article critically examines the nuclear family, which the author asserts is at the heart of Canadian adoption law. Finally, there is a brief presentation of psychoanalytic theories of child development which includes an examination of Freud, attachment theory and feminist analysis. This discussion helps both to explain the current system and to challenge its validity. The author raises important questions about the current state of adoption law and its foundations.

scholarly journals L’intervention auprès de jeunes mères et de leur enfant : perspective de la théorie de l’attachement

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Tarabulsy ◽  
Julie Robitaille ◽  
Carl Lacharité ◽  
Julie Deslandes ◽  
Rémi Coderre
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Young Mothers ◽  
Relationship Attachment

The children of adolescent mothers are among those presenting the highest level of psychosocial risk, compromising their socio-emotional development on a number of levels. Several intervention strategies have been designed to address some of the problems that characterize these mother-infant dyads. While these strategies have proven to be beneficial to young mothers, relatively little impact has been found on the level of infant and child development. The purpose of this article is to address the issue of intervention aimed at adolescent mothers and their infant, and underline that the relational dimension, while absent from most intervention programs, is necessary to our understanding of the problems presented by these dyads. An intervention program, currently undergoing evaluation, is described having as a main objective the improvement of the early mother-infant relationship. Attachment theory is presented as an organizing construct. Characteristics of the intervention, as well as the evaluation strategy, are described.

Finding the Conditions for Success

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Watson
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Real Progress

As Laura looked back on the two years, she knew she had succeeded in educating her students not only for competence, but also for caring. How long this competence would last, Laura did not know. Many things contributed to her success. Laura’s class of approximately 20 students was mostly self-contained, and many students were in the class for two years, allowing her time to bond with them. Laura’s school was part of the Child Development Project which advocated and supported Laura’s teaching style and philosophy. Laura’s principal was supportive, and she had a trusted colleague who would help when some students presented serious problems. Would her students go on to lead successful lives? Many faced huge obstacles. Some might not make it. But she felt confident she had succeeded in helping each of them make real progress.

Taking Culture Seriously

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda A. Morelli ◽  
Nandita Chaudhary ◽  
Alma Gottlieb ◽  
Heidi Keller ◽  
Marjorie Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Local People ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Western Model ◽  
The World

This chapter presents an alternative view to classic attachment theory and research, arguing for systematic, ethnographically informed, approaches to the study of child development. It begins with the observation that the attachment relationships children develop are locally determined and insists that these features of attachment can only be captured through observing, talking with, and listening to local people as they go about living their lives, including caring for children. It reviews the profound ways in which child care around the world differs from the Western model, upon which attachment theory was founded and myriad recommendations have been derived. This worldwide account perspective of child care is profusely illustrated with ethnographic examples. Network theory is then discussed: from the full range of social networks to relational ones (i.e., smaller sets of individuals to whom children may become attached). The chapter considers attachment theorists’ resistance to the idea of multiple attachments, historically and still today. Discussion closes with a summary of the implications of our theoretical rethinking and the questions that remain.

Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Battistich ◽  
Eric Schaps ◽  
Marilyn Watson ◽  
Daniel Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Development Project
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