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The values of the traditional camp experience: the power of play
Childhood is moving indoors. Over the last two decades alone, children have lost twelve hours a week of time to engage in self-initiated activity....
Camping Magazine, 01/01/07 by David Elkind · More from publication -
Response to Objectivism and Education
Abstract This paper continues the dialogue between David Elkind (2004) and Jamin Carson (2005) on constructivism. The opinions of both writers on...
Educational Forum, The, 07/01/05 by Elkind, David · More from publication -
Problem with Constructivism, The
Abstract This paper argues that constructivism is a needed educational reform that will succeed only when three types of readiness are in place:...
Educational Forum, The, 07/01/04 by Elkind, David · More from publication -
Montessori and constructivism
Every approach to education presupposes an epistemology, a set of underlying, unquestioned assumptions about how we come to know the world. While...
Montessori Life, 01/01/03 by Elkind, David · More from publication -
A liability roadmap
Asbestos-most of the material has gone away, but the ramifications persist. Years ago, experts confidently predicted that the flood of asbestos...
Electric Perspectives, 01/01/03 by Elkind, David; Zoogman, Nicholas · More from publication -
A Time to Start the Healing
As the armed agents burst into the house, the crashing doors and strange men in uniforms carrying enormous guns must have been terrifying for a...
Newsweek, 05/01/00 by David Elkind · More from publication -
The death of child nature: education in the postmodern world
Modern children are analyzed psychologically in relation to their attitudes toward education. Factors such as progress, universality and regularity...
Phi Delta Kappan, 11/01/97 by David Elkind · More from publication -
School and family in the postmodern world
The postmodern school of the 1990s reflect the 'kinship structure, values' and individualism of the postmodern family. In keeping with the latter,...
Phi Delta Kappan, 09/01/95 by David Elkind · More from publication -
family in the postmodern world, The
Without fully realizing it perhaps, we have moved into a postmodern world. The conceptual givens of modernity -- the belief in unfettered social...
National Forum, 07/01/95 by Elkind, David · More from publication
