Developmentalism in Early Childhood and Middle Grades Education

General Introduction: Developmentalism and the Need for Critical Conversations Within and Across the Fields; K.Lee & M.D.Vagle PART I: ARE THEY READY YET?; K.Lee What's More Important: Numbers or Shoes?: Readiness, Curriculum and Nonsense in a Rural Preschool; A.N.Parks & S.Bridges-Rhoads Who is Normal? Who is Abnormal?: Rethinking Child Development from a Cultural Psychological Perspective; K.Lee Being Present in the Middle School Years; H.G.Conklin Am I a Novice Teacher?: The Voices of Induction Teachers in a Preschool; S.K.Park & A.N.Parks Responsivity Rather than Readiness; E.Graue PART II: RESPONSIVE TO WHAT?; M.D.Vagle Pursuing an Answerable Education for Young Adolescents; M.D.Vagle Black Adolescent Identity, Double-Consciousness, and a Socio-Historically Constructed Adolescence; L.Harrison Fourteen is the New Thirty: Adolescent Girls, their Bodies, and Sexuality; H.E.Hughes The SMART Board as an Adolescent Classroom Technology; S.Bridges-Rhoads PART II RESPONSE; E.R.Brown PART III: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS FIELDS; K.Lee & M.D.Vagle A Schismatic Family and a Gated Community?; M.D.Vagle & A.Parks Walking the Borderland; K.Lee & H.Conklin