5 Contemporary Influences

T. Berry Brazeelton (1918-2018)

• He was a pediatrician who not only published parenting books but had a television series entitled, What Every Baby Knows
• Primary focus was on the emotional and behavioral development of children
• Advocated for parental leave
• He developed an evaluation toot called the Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale for newborns also known as the Brazelton

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)^[1][2]

• Opposed the notion that whiteness is superior.
• Leader in the study and dismantling of Anti-black racism.
• Fought for the De-institutionalization of people with mental health disorders.

David Elkind

• Psychologist who advocated for allowing children time to investigate their environment
• Studied with Jean Piaget
• Published the book The Hurried Child in 1981 which addressed the implications of children being hurried to grow up.
• Calls attention to the need to afford children the opportunity to be children

Alfie Kohn

• Believes that children should be internally motivated rather than externally motivated
• Wrote a book entitled Punished by Rewards
• Proposed that rewards provide only temporary compliance and in the long run children lose interest in what they had to do to get the reward

Dan Siegel

• Clinical professor at UCLA School of Medicine of Psychiatry
• Director of the Mindset Institute which offers seminars on mindfulness
• Defines mindfulness as the practice of inter- and intrapersonal atonement
• Focuses on family interactions and how attachment influences emotions and behavior

Dr Bruce Perry

• Brain researcher who focuses on how the brain is impacted by early traumatic experiences.
• Wrote or co-wrote the following books:
  • The Boy Who Was Raised as A Dog: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss
  • Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered

Gloria Ladson-Billings ^[3][4]

• Coined the phrase Culturally Relevant pedagogy
• Proposed the theory of education debt
• Advocates for critical race theory
• Author of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms

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