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Week 0: Syllabus Overview & Introductions
Readings: None
Assignment: Sign up for SLACK

Week 1: Social Construction of Childhood
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Lesko, N., & Topping, F. (2012). Act Your Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence. Taylor & Francis Group. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cunygc/detail.action?docID=957060
  • Uprichard, E. (2008). Children as ‘Being and Becomings’: Children, Childhood and Temporality. Children & Society, 22(4), 303–313. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00110.x
  • Fass, P. S. (2011). A Historical Context for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 633(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716210382388
  • Woodhead, M. (2009). Child Development and the Development of Childhood. In J. Qvortrup, W. A. Corsaro, & M.-S. Honig (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies (pp. 46–61). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-27468-6_4

    Assignment:  Reading Response #1
    Media: Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children

Week 2: Traditional Theories of Childhood
Readings: *READ THE SUMMARY CHAPTER, AND PICK 1 OF THE TWO OTHER READINGS*

Week 3: PVEST, Integrative Model in Minority Children, Intersectionality, Acculturation
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Spencer, M. B., Dupree, D., & Hartmann, T. (1997). A Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST): A self-organizationperspective in context. Development and Psychopathology, 9(4), 817–833. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579497001454
  • Garcia-Coll, C., Lamberty, G., Jenkins, R., McAdoo, H. P., Crnic, K., Wasik, B. H., & García, H. V. (1996). An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children. Child Development, 67(5), 1891–1914. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131600
  • Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. 31.
  • Suárez-Orozco, C., Motti-Stefanidi, F., Marks, A., & Katsiaficas, D. (2018). An integrative risk and resilience model for understanding the adaptation of immigrant-origin children and youth. American Psychologist, 73(6), 781–796. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000265

    Assignment:  Reading Response #3
    Media: Kimberlé Crenshaw – On Intersectionality – keynote – WOW 2016

Week 4: LGBTQ+, Disability, Race, Social Class, Gender
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Russell, S. T., Kosciw, J., Horn, S., & Saewyc, E. (n.d.). Social Policy Report Volume 24 Number 4. 25.
  • Watson, N. (2012). Theorising the Lives of Disabled Children: How Can Disability Theory Help? Children & Society, 26(3), 192–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00432.x
  • Henry, D. A., Votruba-Drzal, E., & Miller, P. (2019). Child development at the intersection of race and SES: An overview. In Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Vol. 57, pp. 1–25). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2019.05.002
  • Dumas, M. J., & Nelson, J. D. (2016). (Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Toward a Critical Framework for Educational Research. Harvard Educational Review, 86(1), 27–47. https://doi.org/10.17763/0017-8055.86.1.27

    Assignment:  Reading Response #4
    Media: Moonlight

Week 5: ACES,  Attachment, Maternal Factors,  Children’s Rights
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Keller, H. (2018a). Universality claim of attachment theory: Children’s socioemotional development across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(45), 11414–11419. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720325115
  • Metzler, M., Merrick, M. T., Klevens, J., Ports, K. A., & Ford, D. C. (2017). Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities: Shifting the narrative. Children and Youth Services Review, 72, 141–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.10.021
  • Sharp, G. C., Lawlor, D. A., & Richardson, S. S. (2018). It’s the mother!: How assumptions about the causal primacy of maternal effects influence research on the developmental origins of health and disease. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 213, 20–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.035
  • Ruck, M. D., Peterson-Badali, M., Elisha, I. M., & Tenenbaum, H. R. (n.d.). Children’s Voices about Children’s Rights. 14.

    Assignment:  Reading Response #5, Theory and Media Analysis
    Media: finish Moonlight

Week 6: Prenatal Development
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • DiPietro, J. A. (2020). Prenatal Development. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development (Second Edition) (pp. 600–607). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.21831-2
  • Bulbul, M., Dilbaz, B., Koyuncu, S. B., & Yagmur, Y. (2018). Is Increased Stress Affecting Prenatal Attachment in High Risk Pregnancies? 217, 7.
  • Berenbaum, S. A., & Beltz, A. M. (2018). From Genes to Behavior Through Sex Hormones and Socialization: The Example of Gender Development. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 21(4), 289–294. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.39
  • Lee, L., McKenzie-McHarg, K., & Horsch, A. (2017). The impact of miscarriage and stillbirth on maternal–fetal relationships: An integrative review. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 35(1), 32–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2016.1239249

    Assignment:  Reading Response #6
    Media: Life Before Birth – In the Womb

Week 7: Birth
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Snapp, C., Stapleton, S. R., Wright, J., Niemczyk, N. A., & Jolles, D. (2020). The Experience of Land and Water Birth Within the American Association of Birth Centers Perinatal Data Registry, 2012-2017. The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 34(1), 16–26. https://doi.org/10.1097/JPN.0000000000000450
  • Huang, J., Vaughn, M. G., & Kremer, K. P. (2016). Breastfeeding and child development outcomes: An investigation of the nurturing hypothesis. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 12(4), 757–767. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12200
  • Schaal, N. K., Fehm, T., Helbig, M., Fleisch, M., & Hepp, P. (2020). The Influence of Personality and Anxiety Traits on Birth Experience and Epidural Use in Vaginal Deliveries – A Cohort Study. Women & Health, 0(0), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2020.1802640
  • Chia, A.-R., Chen, L.-W., Lai, J. S., Wong, C. H., Neelakantan, N., van Dam, R. M., & Chong, M. F.-F. (2019). Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Advances in Nutrition, 10(4), 685–695. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmy123

    Assignment:  Reading Response #7

Week 8: Infancy [0 to 1]
Assignment:  Reading Response due by 9:30 am
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Libertus, K., & Violi, D. A. (2016). Sit to Talk: Relation between Motor Skills and Language Development in Infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00475
  • O’Connor, T. G., Scheible, K., Sefair, A. V., Gilchrist, M., Blackmore, E. R., Winter, M. A., Gunnar, M. R., Wyman, C., Carnahan, J., Moynihan, J. A., & Caserta, M. T. (2017). Immune and Neuroendocrine Correlates of Temperament in Infancy. Development and Psychopathology, 29(5), 1589–1600. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001250
  • Keller, H. (2018b). Parenting and socioemotional development in infancy and early childhood. Developmental Review, 50, 31–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2018.03.001
  • Hemmingsson, E. (2018). Early Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Socioeconomic Adversity, Family Dysfunction, Offspring Distress, and Junk Food Self-Medication. Current Obesity Reports, 7(2), 204–209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-018-0310-2
  • Adolph, K. E., & Hoch, J. E. (2019). Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling. Annual Review of Psychology, 70(1), 141–164. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-102836

    Assignment: Reading Response #8
    Media:Babies: What Babies Know

Week 9: Toddlerhood [1 to 3]
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Demeusy, E. M., Handley, E. D., Rogosch, F. A., Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2018). Early Neglect and the Development of Aggression in Toddlerhood: The Role of Working Memory. Child Maltreatment, 23(4), 344–354. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559518778814
  • Kozlowski, A. M., Matson, J. L., Horovitz, M., Worley, J. A., & Neal, D. (2011). Parents’’ first concerns of their child’s development in toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 14(2), 72–78. https://doi.org/10.3109/17518423.2010.539193
  • Schoepflin, Z., Chen, X., Ragonesi, C., Galloway, J., & Agrawal, S. (2011). Design of a novel mobility device controlled by the feet motion of a standing child: A feasibility study. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 49(10), 1225–1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-011-0820-5
  • Rosin, H. (2013). The Touch-Screen Generation. (Cover story). Atlantic, 311(3), 56–65.

    Assignment: Reading Response #9
    Media: Babies: Toddlers

Week 10: Early Childhood [4 to 6]
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Mandalaywala, T. M., Ranger‐Murdock, G., Amodio, D. M., & Rhodes, M. (2019). The Nature and Consequences of Essentialist Beliefs About Race in Early Childhood. Child Development, 90(4), e437–e453. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13008
  • Tayler, C. (2015). Learning in Early Childhood: Experiences, relationships and ’ Learning to Be’. European Journal of Education, 50(2), 160–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12117
  • McCoy, D. C., Yoshikawa, H., Ziol-Guest, K. M., Duncan, G. J., Schindler, H. S., Magnuson, K., Yang, R., Koepp, A., & Shonkoff, J. P. (2017). Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes. Educational Researcher, 46(8), 474–487. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17737739
  • Kit, B. K., Akinbami, L. J., Isfahani, N. S., & Ulrich, D. A. (2017). Gross Motor Development in Children Aged 3–5 Years, United States 2012. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(7), 1573–1580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2289-9

    Assignment: Reading Response #10
    Media: No Small Matter

Week 11: Middle Childhood [7 to 10]
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Rogers, L. O., Zosuls, K. M., Halim, M. L., Ruble, D., Hughes, D., & Fuligni, A. (2012). Meaning making in middle childhood: An exploration of the meaning of ethnic identity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18(2), 99–108. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027691
  • Gloger-Tippelt, G., & Kappler, G. (2016). Narratives of attachment in middle childhood: Do gender, age, and risk-status matter for the quality of attachment? Attachment & Human Development, 18(6), 570–595. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2016.1194440
  • Hunt, T. K. A., Slack, K. S., & Berger, L. M. (2017). Adverse childhood experiences and behavioral problems in middle childhood. Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 391–402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.005
  • Middle childhood: An evolutionary-developmental synthesis Chapter

Assignment: Reading Response #11
Media: Troop Zero

Week 12: Late Childhood (Early Adolescence) [11 to 12]
Assignment:  Reading Response due by 9:30 am, Developmental Stages Self-Reflection
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Bessant, J. (2008). Hard wired for risk: Neurological science, ‘the adolescent brain’ and developmental theory. Journal of Youth Studies, 11(3), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676260801948387
  • Nieri, T., Lee, C., Kulis, S., & Marsiglia, F. F. (2011). Acculturation among Mexican-heritage preadolescents: A latent class analysis. Social Science Research, 40(4), 1236–1248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.02.005
  • Whitten, T., Stevens, R., Ructtinger, L., Tzoumakis, S., Green, M. J., Laurens, K. R., Holbrook, A., & Carr, V. J. (2018). Connection to the Natural Environment and Well-Being in Middle Childhood. Ecopsychology, 10(4), 270–279. https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2018.0010
  • Wojciak, A. S., McWey, L. M., & Waid, J. (2018). Sibling relationships of youth in foster care: A predictor of resilience. Children and Youth Services Review, 84, 247–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.11.030

    Assignment: Reading Response #12
    Media: Finish watching Troop Zero, Q&A Developmental Stages Self-Reflection

Week 13: Other Considerations
Readings: *PICK 2 READINGS*

  • Duarte, C. S., Bird, H. R., Shrout, P. E., Wu, P., Lewis-Fernandéz, R., Shen, S., & Canino, G. (2008). Culture and psychiatric symptoms in Puerto Rican children: Longitudinal results from one ethnic group in two contexts. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(5), 563–572. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01863.x
  • Niwa, E.Y., Boxer, P., Dubow, E., Huesmann, L.R., Landau, S., Gvirsman, S.D., Shikaki, K., &
    Ginges, J. (In press). Growing up amid ethno-political conflict: Aggression and emotional desensitization promote hostility to ethnic out-groups. To appear in Child Development.
  • Kilmer, R. P., Cook, J. R., Crusto, C., Strater, K. P., & Haber, M. G. (2012). Understanding the Ecology and Development of Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness: Implications for Practice, Supportive Services, and Policy. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 82(3), 389–401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01160.x
  • Herbers, J. E., Cutuli, J. J., Jacobs, E. L., Tabachnick, A. R., & Kichline, T. (2019). Early childhood risk and later adaptation: A person-centered approach using latent profiles. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 62, 66–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.01.003

    Assignment: Reading Response #13, Developmental Stages Self-Reflection due by 11:59 pm
    Media: Instant Family

Week 14: Student Selected Topic
Assignments: None
Media: Finish Instant Family, Article Review Q&A

Week 15: Article Review Presentations
Individual/Group Presentations
Assignment: Article Review Paper and Presentation, Extra Credit (paper will be extra credit worth 2 points)

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