Developmentalism in Early Childhood and Middle Grades Education

General Introduction: Developmentalism and the Need for Critical Conversations within and across the Fields; Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle PART I: ARE THEY READY YET?; Kyunghwa Lee 1. What's More Important: Numbers or Shoes? Readiness, Curriculum and Nonsense in a Rural Preschool; Amy Noelle Parks and Sarah Bridges-Rhoads 2. Who is Normal? Who is Abnormal? Rethinking Child Development from a Cultural Psychological Perspective; Kyunghwa Lee 3. Being Present in the Middle School Years; Hilary G. Conklin 4. Am I a Novice Teacher?: The Voices of Induction Teachers in a Preschool; Su Kyoung Park and Amy Noelle Parks 5. Responsivity rather than Readiness; M. Elizabeth Graue PART II: RESPONSIVE TO WHAT?; Mark D. Vagle 6. Pursuing an Answerable Education for Young Adolescents: Implications for Critical Middle Grades Literacy Teacher Education; Mark D. Vagle 7. Black Adolescent Identity, Double-Consciousness, and a Sociohistorically Constructed Adolescence; Lisa Harrison 8. Fourteen is the New Thirty: Adolescent Girls, their Bodies, and Sexuality; Hilary E. Hughes 9. The SMART Board as an Adolescent Classroom Technology; Sarah Bridges-Rhoads 10. A Critical Perspective on Human Development: Implications for Adolescence, Classroom Practice, and Middle School Policy; Enora R. Brown PART III: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS FIELDS; Kyunghwa Lee and Mark D. Vagle 11. A Schismatic Family and a Gated Community?; Mark D. Vagle and Amy Parks 12. Walking the Borderland; Hilary G. Conklin and Kyunghwa Lee