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Name: David Elkind
Title: Professor Emeritus
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Ph.D.
Expertise: cognitive and social development in children and adolescents; causes and effects of stress on children, youth and families.
Major Awards: Editorial Board Member for: Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic; Journal of Youth and Adolescence; Journal of Experimental Education; Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Education Digest; Journal of Science and Education; and Montessori Life. Board Member: National Parenting Association and Institute for Family Values, National Forum on Leadership in Early Childhood Education. Consultant to schools, mental health associations and private foundations. Local and national media presentation on subjects relating to children, youth and families. Co-hosted Kids These Days, weekdays and Sundays on Lifetime.
E-mail: david.elkind@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Elkind, D. (1981/1988/2001) The Hurried Child, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Elkind, D. (1994) Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance.. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Elkind, D. (1988) All Grown up and No Place to Go. (2nd edition) Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Elkind, D. (1988) Reinventing Childhood. Rosemont, NJ: Modern Learning Press.

Elkind, D. (1987) Miseducation New York: Knopf

"Thanks for the Memory: The Lasting Value of True Play", Young Children

"How Children Build Their Concept of Number". Child Care Information Exchange

"Montessori and Constructivism". Montessori Life

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