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1) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As noted in the preface, the underlying message of the original volume "Children in Time and Place: Developmental and Historical Insights" stressed the importance of recognizing that children's development is best understood when placed in a specific historical and life course developmental context. The current formulation updates this perspective by focusing more explicitly on the socio- cultural aspects as well"--
"Children live in rapidly changing...
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