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Arnold Lucius Gesell (21 June 1880 – 29 May 1961) was an American psychologist, pediatrician and professor at Yale University known for his research and contributions to the fields of child hygiene and child development.
The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925 [1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate of maturational growth in normal and exceptional children"(Gesell 1928). [2]
The Gesell Developmental Schedules are a set of developmental metrics which outline the ages & stages of development in young children developed by Dr. Arnold Gesell and colleagues. [1] The original scale is generally considered not to satisfy the standards of rigor currently accepted in the field of psychometrics and is no longer used as an ...
The Gesell Institute of Child Development is a 501c(3)non-profit organization located in the Gesell Institute building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It promotes to and educates child care professionals on the principles of child development originally laid down by the institutional namesake, Arnold ...
Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy that sees the child as a growing organism and believes that the role of education is to passively support this growth rather than actively fill the child with information.
The first five years of life, 1940; Infant and child in the culture of today, 1943; The child from five to ten, 1946 (with Frances L. Ilg) Child behavior, 1955 (with Frances L. Ilg and Arnold Gesell) Youth: the years from ten to sixteen, 1956
The center was started in 1911 as the Yale Clinic of Child Development by Arnold Gesell. Dr. Gesell, who is considered the father of child development in the United States, led the center until 1948. [5] Subsequent directors were: [5] Milton J.E. Senn, 1948–1966; Albert J. Solnit, 1966–1983; Donald J. Cohen, 1983–2001
(with Arnold Gesell) The child from five to ten, 1946; L'Enfant de 5 à 10 ans, 1949; Child behavior, 1951; The Gesell Institute party book, 1959; Parents ask, 1962 (with Louise Bates Ames) Mosaic patterns of American children, 1962; School readiness; behavior tests used at the Gesell Institute, 1964; Your four-year-old: wild and wonderful, 1976