Children of the Information Age: Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations

Daniel Keating & Clyde Hertzman, Editors
and
The CIAR Human Development Program


Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Modernity's Paradox
Keating & Hertzman

Part 1: Developmental Health

Introduction to Part 1

Chapter 2   Population Health and Human Development
Hertzman

Chapter 3   Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills
Power & Hertzman

Chapter 4   When Children's Social Development Fails
Tremblay

Chapter 5   Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of Families, Schools and Communities
Willms

Chapter 6   Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for Adults? Achievement and Health of Children in the United States
Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, and Rebello Britto

Chapter 7   Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and their Responsiveness to Intervention During Early Childhood
Case & Griffin

Part 2: Fundamental Processes: Biology and Development

Introduction to Part 2

Chapter 8    Mechanisms of Brain Development: Sculpting by the Physical and Social Environment
Cynader & Frost

Chapter 9    Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys
Suomi

Chapter 10   Psychosocial Processes and Psychoneuroimmunology Within a Lifespan Perspective
Coe

Chapter 11   The Organization of Regulatory Systems from Infancy to Early Childhood: Habits of Mind in Competence and Coping
Keating & Miller

Part 3: Human Development and the Learning Society

Introduction to Part 3

Chapter 12   The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda
Keating

Chapter 13   Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and Work
Rohlen

Chapter 14   Schools as Knowledge Building Organizations
Scardamalia & Bereiter

Part 4: The Ecology of Child Development: Lessons for a Learning Society

Introduction to Part 4

Chapter 15   Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches
Offord, Kraemer, Kazdin, Jensen, Harrington, & Gardner

Chapter 16   The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1,2,3 GO! Project
Bouchard

Chapter 17   "It Takes a Village . . .", and New Roads to Get There
Pence

Chapter 18   Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations
Keating

References