David Elkind

10.3k citations
216 papers · 6.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

    • Child and Animal Learning Development
    • Educational and Psychological Assessments
    • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Education top 0.2%
    • Early Childhood Education and Development
    • Child Development and Digital Technology
    • Parental Involvement in Education

Papers in

    • Early Childhood Education and Development 16
    • Education Methods and Practices 10
    • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms 7
    • Child Development and Digital Technology 7
    • Education Systems and Policy 7
    • Educational and Psychological Assessments 9
    • Child and Animal Learning Development 7

David Elkind

191 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Six Psychological Studies 1967 · 892 citations
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Peers

David Elkind
Comparison fields: 5 of 174
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 1.7k
  • Education 2.2k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 947
  • Clinical Psychology 1.4k
  • Statistics and Probability 490
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All Works

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#Work
1
The Values of Outdoor Play
20061
2
Thanks for the Memory: The Lasting Value of True Play.
20039
3
The Cosmopolitan School
200113
4
Thinking about Children's Play: Play Is Not Work, Nor Is Work Play.
20011
5
Instructive Discipline Is Built on Understanding: Choosing Time In.
20011
6
All grown up and no place to go : teenagers in crisis
199837
7
Early Childhood Education: What Should We Expect?.
19963
8
The Young Child in the Postmodern World.
19950
9
development in early childhood
199112
10
Viewpoint 1. Superbaby Syndrome Can Lead to Elementary School Burnout.
19877
11
Stress and the Middle Grader.
198614
12
Formal Education and Early Childhood Education: An Essential Difference.
198684
13
Helping Parents Make Healthy Educational Choices for Their Children.
19866
14
Teenage Thinking and the Curriculum.
19831
15
Early Education: Are Young Children Exploited? A Commentary on Feitelson, Tehori, and Levinberg-Green.
19821
16
Investigating Intelligence in Early Adolescence
19802
17
Beginning Reading: A Stage-Structure Analysis.
19792
18
G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet.
197323
19
Contemporary Issues In Early Childhood Education.
197318
20
Early Childhood Education: A Piagetian Perspective.
19711

About David Elkind

David Elkind is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Applied Psychology and Statistics and Probability, having authored 216 papers that have together received 6.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Early Childhood Education and Development (16 papers), Education Methods and Practices (10 papers), Educational and Psychological Assessments (9 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (7 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers), Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (7 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (7 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (1.7k citations), Education (2.2k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (947 citations), Clinical Psychology (1.4k citations) and Statistics and Probability (490 citations). David Elkind has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Qatar. Frequent co-authors include Jean Piaget, Anita Tenzer, John H. Flavell, Robert Bowen, Ronald R. Koegler, Steven R. Yussen, Irving B. Weiner, Stephen D. Ginsberg, Bernard Spilka and John L. Horn. Their work appears in journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Phi Delta Kappan, Science and Harvard Educational Review.

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