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Research Guide to Child Development
This research guide provides information relevant to the
Child Development Associate program (CDA), although many of the
materials will also be useful to students of early childhood
education.
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Introduction/How to Search
Librarians do not simply buy materials and randomly put them
onto the shelves. Each new item is
classified-meaning it is examined carefully
and assigned a number to make sure that materials on the same
subject are shelved together. Pima College's Library uses the
Library of Congress classification system, as
does the University of Arizona. This system assigns each
subject a combination of letters and numbers, then uses these
letters and numbers to arrange materials on the shelves. (For
more information see How to Read
a Call Number.)
The following table shows how some basic subject headings in
child development are classified. Clicking on any of these
subject headings will start a search for the subject in the Library
catalog.
Reference
Resources
This section lists a few child development reference tools.
Not all the print resources listed are available at all campus
libraries. Check the Library
catalog to verify the availability of titles.
- Arkin, Elaine Bratic, and United States. Bureau of
Maternal and Child Health and Resources Development.
Infant Care. Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Dept. of Health and Human Services Public Health Service
Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of
Maternal and Child Health and Resources Development ; Supt.
of Docs. U.S. G.P.O. distributor, 1989. Call no.: RJ61 .A663
1989. This U.S. government publication provides information
on preparing for a newborn, infant care, infant growth and
development, infant health and safety, and emergencies and
first aid.
- Bergen, Doris.
Assessment Methods for Infants and Toddlers:
Transdisciplinary Team Approaches. New
York: Teachers College Press, 1994. This title deals with the
assessment of young children (from birth to age 3) at
developmental risk. "It is particularly focused on
identifying ways team assessments can be effectively used to
gather the information needed for design of intervention
activities and delivery of appropriate services."
- Buckler, J. M. H. A Reference Manual of
Growth and Development. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Blackwell Science, 1997. Call no.: RJ131 .B8 1997. This
reference presents "normal data" on children: everything from
length, height and weight to head circumference, dental
development, and other measures.
- Buros, Oscar Krisen, and Buros Institute of Mental
Measurements. The ... Mental Measurements
Yearbook. Highland Park, N.J.: The Mental
Measurements Yearbook etc., 1941. Call no.: ZBF 431 M549.
Published since 1941, this is the standard reference source
for information on tests and measurements of all sorts,
including tests for children (e.g., the Child Sexual Behavior
Inventory, the Early Childhood Attention Deficit Disorders
Evaluation Scale, etc.)
- Child Growth and Development.
Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Pub. Group, 1994-. Call no.: HQ767.8
.C45. This annually published anthology contains articles
from journals, magazines, and newspapers on a variety of
topics related to child growth and development.
- Current Pediatric Diagnosis &
Treatment. Los Altos, Calif.: Lange Medical
Publications, 1970- . Call no.: RJ1 .K45 2003. This guide
contains 44 chapters that address the questions which arise
in the day-to-day practice of pediatrics.
- Fass, Paula S.
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History
and Society. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2004. This 3-volume set presents the
social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to
the present, including articles on education, parenting,
child labor, economics, play, law, social welfare, and
several other topics. Comparative articles include
information about childhood in cultures around the
world.
- Feldhausen, Jil. Pediatric Nutrition
Handbook. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1996.
Call no.: RM217.2 .C44 1996. This small handbook provides
information on general nutrition, food sources of selected
nutrients, determination of nutrient requirements, assessment
of nutritional status factors associated with nutritional
risk in children, age-specific nutrition recommendations, and
disease-specific feeding issues.
- Franck, Irene M., and David M. Brownstone.
The Parent's Desk Reference. 1st
pbk. ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992. Call no.: HQ769 .F717
1992. Aimed at parents, this title provides guidance on
parenting, children's health, and child
development.
- Gestwicki, Carol. Developmentally Appropriate
Practice : Curriculum and Development in Early
Education. Albany, N.Y.: Delmar Publishers,
1995. Call no.: LB1139.25 .G47 1995. This handbook provides
useful overviews of developmentally appropriate physical
environments, social-emotional environments, and
cognitive-language environments.
- Gillis, Jack, and Mary Ellen R. Fise. The
Childwise Catalog : A Consumer Guide to Buying the Safest and
Best Products for Your Children : Newborns through Age
5. 1st Perennial Library ed, rev. and updat ed.
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Call no.: RJ61.G418 1990.
Aimed at consumers, this book serves as a product-specific
guide to products for children, by age
group.
- Horn Book Inc., and Association for Library Service to
Children. The Newbery & Caldecott Medal
Books, 1986-2000 : A Comprehensive Guide to the
Winners. Chicago, Ill.: American Library
Association, 2001. Call no.: Z1037.A2 N492 2001. This
handbook provides information on the winners of the Newbery
and Caldecott medals for children's literature.
- Human Development. Guilford,
Ct.: Dushkin Pub. Group Inc., 1980-. Call no.: HQ768 .A55.
This annually published title serves as an anthology,
providing a compilation of articles from journals, magazines
and newspapers.
- Jefferson, Thomas C., and Tracy Irons-Georges.
Children's Health. 2 vols.
Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1999. Call no.: RJ101 .C5276
1999. This encyclopedia offers 352 articles that survey "the
broad range of diseases, disorders, and defects that can
affect infants, young children, or teenagers and charts the
emotional, cognitive, physical, and social stages of
development that most children follow."
- Larrick, Nancy. A Parent's Guide to
Children's Reading. 5th ed. Philadelphia:
Westminster Press, 1982. Call no.: LB1140.5.R4 L37 1982b.
Aimed at the needs of parents and educators, this book
provides guidance and suggestions on how to encourage reading
beginning in pre-school.
- Lerner, Richard M., Anne C. Petersen, and Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn. Encyclopedia of
Adolescence. 2 vols. New York: Garland Pub.,
1991. Call no.: HQ796 .E58 1990. This encyclopedia offers
over 200 multidisciplinary articles on topics relating to
adolescence. the intended audience is researchers, teachers,
and practitioners.
- Lovejoy, Frederick H., David Estridge, and Children's
Hospital (Boston Mass.). The New Child Health
Encyclopedia. New York: Delacorte Press, 1987.
Call no.: RJ61 .N389 1987. Aimed at parents, this reference
tool has sections on keeping children healthy, finding health
care for children, emergencies, and diseases and
symptoms.
- Merrell, Kenneth W.
Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of
Children and Adolescents. Mahwah, N.J.: L.
Erlbaum Associates, 1999. This title explores the foundations
and methods of assessment and the assessment of specific
problems, competencies and populations.
- Noshpitz, Joseph D. Handbook of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. 4 vols. New York: Wiley,
1997. Call no.: RJ499.3 .H356 1997. This multi-volume set
provides information on development and syndromes of Infants
and preschoolers,grade school children, adolescence, and the
varieties of development.
- Osofsky, Joy D., Hiram E. Fitzgerald, and World
Association for Infant Mental Health. Handbook of
Infant Mental Health. 4 vols. New York: Wiley,
2000. Call no.: RJ502.5 .H362 2000. This multi-volume set
from the WAIMH provides in-depth essays in four major areas:
perspectives of infant mental health; early intervention,
evaluation, and assessment; parenting and child care; infant
mental health groups at high risk.
- Salkind, Neil J.
Child Development. New York:
Macmillan Reference, 2002. This 487 page book is
written for the general reader, and covers issues related to
human development from conception through adolescence.: This
487 page book is written for the general reader, and covers
issues related to human development from conception through
adolescence.
- Schiller, Pamela Byrne, and Pat Phipps. The
Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood : Over 1,200
Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and
Learning Styles. Beltsville, MD: Gryphon House,
2002. Call no.: LB1139.35.A37 S35 2002. Aimed at teachers of
three- to six-year old children, this title provides over
1,200 activities, arranged by themes (e.g., "the shape of
things," "celebrations").
- Silver, Henry K., et al. Silver, Kempe, Bruyn
& Fulginiti's Handbook of Pediatrics.
Norwalk, Conn.: Appleton & Lange, 1991. Call no.: RJ48
.S64. This handbook provides information on the care of
children, from infancy through adolescence. Among the topics
covered are growth and development of the healthy child,
ambulatory care, preventive medicine, and diagnosis and
management of common pediatric disorders.
- Wallander, Jan Lance, and Lawrence J. Siegel.
Adolescent Health Problems : Behavioral
Perspectives. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.
Call no.: RJ47.53 .A36 1995. This is a collection of essays
on a variety of issues, research, and clinical perspectives
on adolescent health-risk and prevention behaviors and
chronic physical conditions.
- Wien, Carol Anne.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in "Real
Life": Stories of Teacher Practical
Knowledge. New York: Teachers College
Press, 1995. This very practical title looks at the "real
world of teaching" as experienced by five child-care
teachers, and examines a variety of issues relating to the
difficulties of establishing a developmentally appropriate
teaching practice.
Online Databases
Unless otherwise indicated, the databases below are
available 24 hours a day, seven days a week with a student ID or a faculty/staff Library card.
- A good source for access to articles in child development
and early childhood education, as well as a small number of
titles in the field of child psychology, is
ProQuest Education Journals,
which provides the full text of articles in over 20
periodicals.
- Another database specific to education is EBSCO’s
Education Research Complete. This bibliographic
and full text database covers scholarly research and
information relating to all areas of education. Topics
covered include all levels of education from early childhood
to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum
instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and
related social issues. Searches in this database also query
another EBSCO database, Professional Development
Collection.
- Established in 1966, ERIC (the Educational Resource
Information Center) is supported by the U.S. Department of
Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement
and is administered by the U.S. National Library of Education
(NLE). ERIC is the largest education database in the
world—containing over one million records of journal
articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides,
conference papers, and books. The PCC Library subscribes to
two different “flavors” of ERIC: one from
EBSCO, the other from
ProQuest. The difference between the two (beyond
the search interface, of course) is that each offers access
to different sets of full text journals. Thus, if you
don’t find an educational journal article in full-text
in one version of ERIC, make sure you try the
other…just in case!
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Primary Search, designed specifically for
elementary school libraries, contains full text for nearly 70
popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles
are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of
Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World
Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read
encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The
database also provides the American Heritage® Children's
Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image
Collection. This database can be useful to teachers who need
materials for lesson plans.
- Providing articles from a variety of sources (mostly
magazines and newspapers), SIRS
Knowledge Source comprises several
databases, including one entitled "SIRS Researcher." This
database provides information on topics related to the
family, including youth.
Web Sites
There are many web sites devoted to child development and
early childhood education. We've listed a small number of
high-quality sites that contain links to additional sites.
- Child
Trends Databank. 2002. Web site. Available
at: http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/.
Accessed on: Sept. 2, 2008. This web site is sponsored by
Child Trends, a non-profit children's research association.
It provides access to "the latest national trends and
research on over 80 key indicators of child and youth
well-being."
- Earlychildhood.com.
2002. Web site. Available at: http://www.earlychildhood.com/.
Accessed on: Sept. 2, 2008. This site is designed to provide
articles and links to activities and curriculum for early
childhood educators. It also features articles from
Earlychildhood NEWS.
- National Center for Early Development & Learning. NCEDL.
2004. Web site. Available at: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/%7Encedl/.
Accessed on: Sept. 2, 2008. This web site is funded by the
U.S. Department of Education, and provides access to research
that "focuses on enhancing thecognitive, social and emotional
development of children from birth through age eight." NCEDL
also lists related web sites for further research.
- Parenthood.Com.
2004. Web site. Available at: http://parenthood.com/links.html.
Accessed on: Sept. 2, 2008. This consumer-oriented web
directory lists web sites in topics such as caring for
children, pregnancy, parenting, family, education, and
parenting.
- United States. Administration for Children and Families.
Head Start
Bureau. 2004. Web site. Available at: http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/.
Accessed on: Sept. 2, 2008. The Head Start program "serves
the child development needs of preschool children (birth
through age five) and their low-income families." Of
particular note at this site are links to government
sponsored research and statistics, as well as publications
and information resources.
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