Edward Zigler (1930–2019)
Autor(a) de The Pre-K Debates: Current Controversies and Issues
About the Author
Edward Frank Zigler was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 1, 1930. After serving in the Army during the Korean War, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas City in 1954 and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He joined the mostrar mais Yale University faculty as an assistant professor of psychology in 1959. He was a psychologist who in the mid-1960s helped design Head Start. He was an early advocate of guaranteed time off from work for new parents, the teaching of child-rearing skills to teenagers, and the integration of health and social service programs and day care into neighborhood public school buildings. Under President Richard M. Nixon, Zigler was chief of the children's bureau of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in early 1970. Within months the bureau became the Office of Child Development and he became its first permanent director. He was the author or editor of 40 books. He died from complications of coronary artery disease on February 7, 2019 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Edward Zigler
Head Start: The Inside Story of America's Most Successful Educational Experiment (1992) 15 exemplares
The First Three Years and Beyond: Brain Development and Social Policy (Current Perspectives in Psychology) (2002) 6 exemplares
Inspiring greatness in education : a school of the 21st century model at the Independence School District (2014) 3 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1930-03-01
- Data de falecimento
- 2019-02-07
- Sexo
- male
- Ocupações
- Psychologist
- Organizações
- Yale
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Críticas
The Pre-K Debates: Current Controversies and Issues por Edward Ph.D. Zigler
The three primary editors of this volume all hold Ph.D.s. Edward Zigler's is from Yale, Walter S. Gilliam is from Yale School of Medicine and W. Steven Barnett is from the National Institute for Early Education Research Rutgers. "Edited by a founder of Head Start and two other highly respected experts, this forward-thinking book gathers a who's who of more than 40 leading thinkers in early childhood education. In a compelling point-counterpoint format, this book gives readers nuanced, multifaceted perspectives on complex questions. . ." Source: The book's back cover… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Membros
- 135
- Popularidade
- #150,831
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 54