Family and Consumer Science (FACS)

Child Development
Brain Wonders: www.zerotothree.org; Click on the parents portion of the site to get tons of information
Grow Up Reading: www.growupreading.org; Learn here about reading to babies through first graders and how it helps with development
Kids Health: kidshealth.org/index_noflash.html; Click on Parents, Click on Growth & Development
National Network for Child Care: www.nncc.org; Click on Articles and Resources, Click on Child Development
The Whole Child: www.pbs.org/wholechild/index.html; Check out "The ABCs of Child Development" for info on development; And "For Early Childhood Ed Providers" for thoughts concerning activities
University of Maine Cooperative Extension: http://extensionpubs.umext.maine.edu; Click on Home and Family; Scroll down to the Growing Years Series; You can view in either pdf or html formats
Child Development Theorists
General
Personality Theories: www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/perscontents.html

Encyclopedia of Psychology
www.psychology.org

Specific
Bandura

Albert Bandura: Biographical Sketch

www.des.emory.edu/mfp/bandurabio.htm

Learn about Bandura

Bandura - Self-efficacy Information

www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html

Tons of links that lead to tons of information
Brazelton

Brazelton Touchpoints Center

www.touchpoints.org/faculty.html#brazelton

Check out the Touchpoints Center dedicated to helping people parent infants

There is a bio as well

The Brazelton Institute

www.brazelton-institute.com

Learn about the Institute

Click here for info on Brazelton

Bronfenbrenner

Obituary from Cornell - if you search google you will find many obit as Bronfenbrenner died in 2005

www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept05/Bronfenbrenner.ssl.html

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model of Child Development

http://oconto.uwex.edu/files/2011/02/AppendixB-BronfenbrennersEcologicalModelofChildDevelopment.pdf

A nice handout and explanation

Coles

Basic Humanity: An Interview with Robert Coles

www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/february97/coles_2-21.html

Read a PBS interview with Coles

Robert Coles Wins Medal of Freedom

www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.15/RobertColesWins.html

From the Harvard University Gazette, January 15, 1988

A Way of Seeing: The Work of Robert Coles

www.scottlondon.com/articles/coles.html

Article covers how Coles does his work and makes his observations

Erikson

Erikson Tutorial Homepage

web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/welcome.HTML

Read about Erikson and his theories - links from this page lead to further information

Erikson's Developmental Stages

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/erikson.htm

Contains a breakdown of the stages of development as well as a really good Erikson link

Freud, Anna

Anna Freud Centre

www.annafreudcentre.org/anna_freud.htm

Learn about Anna Freud and the Centre that she founded

Freud, Sigmund

Freud: Conflict and Culture

www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud

Click on the links under Exhibition Selections

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm

Gesell

Gesell, Arnold (1880-1961)

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000150

An encyclopedia article from GALE

The Gesell Institute of Human Development

www.gesellinstitute.org

Shares information about the Gesell institute and their theories

Look on the library shelves under 649.12_ to find books concerning the developing child from Gesell's perspective

Kohlberg

Laurence Kohlberg

faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm

Here you will find information on Kohlberg's stages of Moral development

Maslow

Personality Theories: Abraham Maslow

www.ship.edu/%7Ecgboeree/maslow.html

Find here information on Maslow and his theories

Notes on Abraham Maslow

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/maslow_summary.html

Easy to access information on Maslow from Victor Daniels, a psych professor at Sonoma

Montessori

The International Montessori Index

www.montessori.edu

Find info here on Maria Montessori and the Montessori method

Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil.com

www.drphil.com/articles/category/4

This is Dr. Phil's parenting page.

Piaget

Jean Piaget

www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/piaget.html

Read a bit about Piaget

Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology: Appreciation and Critique

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/piaget.html

Flesher