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Elkind, David – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Social and economic changes affect children indirectly, through the modifications they engender in parental behavior. No-fault divorce laws, for example, made divorce easier and led to a substantial increase in the number of separated families. In contrast to social and economic change, technological change can impact children directly without…
Descriptors: Social Change, Economic Change, Child Development, Economic Impact
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Elkind, David – Childhood Education, 1981
Considers the information revolution a force for social change which will transform family structure, educational modes, and increase pressure on young adolescents to grow up quickly. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Expectation, Family Influence, One Parent Family
Elkind, David – Momentum, 1991
Postmodern social changes, ways these changes have contributed to the assumption of additional child-rearing functions by schools, and the modeling role of Catholic and other religious schools are discussed. Controversies in secular and religious schools arise from the transition from modern to postmodern values, not from parents'/schools' bad…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Child Rearing, Educational Change, Educational Responsibility