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Child Development Theories
Children change in somewhat predictable but highly individualized ways. Child development theories identify discrete periods within childhood. Different theories explaining these changes help educational leaders understand and serve their communities of learners. Learning theories, ...
- Administration, theories of
- American Association of School Administrators
- Democracy, democratic education and administration
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Risk takers, in educational administration
- Stress, in school administration
- Theory movement, in educational administration
- University Council for Educational Administration
- Adams, Charles Francis
- Addams, Jane
- Aristotle
- Baer, Donald
- Barnard, Chester I.
- Bell, Ted
- Bethune, Mary McLeod
- Binet, Alfred
- Bobbitt, John Franklin
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Burns, James MacGregor
- Burroughs, Nannie
- Burt, Cyril
- Butler, Nicholas Murray
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Cattell, Raymond
- Chavez, Cesar Estrada
- Clark, Septima
- Cocking, Walter
- Coleman, James
- Cooper, Anna Julia
- Coppin, Fanny Jackson
- Covey, Stephen
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Cubberley, Ellwood
- Culbertson, Jack
- Darwin, Charles
- de Bono, Edward
- Deming, W. Edwards
- Dewey, John
- Dorsey, Susan Miller
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Dyson, Michael Eric
- Follett, Mary Parker
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friedman, Milton
- Fullan, Michael
- Gardner, Howard
- Graves, Claire
- Greenfield, Thomas Barr
- Haley, Margaret
- Hall, R. Vance
- Halpin, Andrew
- Harris, William Torrey
- Havighurst, Robert
- Hay, Henry (Harry)
- Howe, Harold
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Jung, Carl
- King, Martin Luther Jr.
- Kuhn, Thomas
- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara
- Lindsley, Ogden R.
- Loyola, Ignatius
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Malcolm X
- Mann, Horace
- Marshall, Thurgood
- Marx, Karl
- Maslow, Abraham
- Maxwell, William H.
- McGregor, Douglas
- Meier, Deborah
- Mendez, Felicitas
- Montessori, Maria
- Ossorio, Peter G.
- Parker, Francis W.
- Patri, Angelo
- Peirce, Cyrus
- Piaget, Jean
- Picott, J. Rupert
- Plato
- Plutarch
- Popper, Karl
- Rice, Joseph Mayer
- Risley, Todd R.
- Rogers, Carl
- Russell, Bertrand
- Sanchez, George
- Simon, Herbert
- Sizemore, Barbara A.
- Skinner, B. F.
- Spearman, Charles
- Spencer, Herbert
- Strayer, George D.
- Taylor, Frederick
- Thorndike, Edward
- Trenholm, Harper Councill
- Tyler, Ralph Winifred
- Washington, Booker T.
- Weber, Max
- Wolf, Montrose
- Woodson, Carter G.
- Young, Ella Flagg
- Aesthetics, in education
- Alignment, of curriculum
- Arts education
- Bible, as history
- Business education
- Career and technical education
- Character education
- Civics, civic education
- Civics, history in schools
- Community education
- Compensatory education
- Contextual teaching and learning
- Creationism
- Cross-cultural education
- Cross-cultural studies
- Curriculum, theories of
- Curriculum audit
- Curriculum guides
- Curriculum mapping
- Death education
- Differentiated instruction
- Differentiated staffing
- Drug education
- Early childhood education
- Elementary education
- Federal Privacy Act
- Fundamentalism
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Globalism
- History, in curriculum
- Holocaust education
- Humanistic education
- Indian education
- Innovation, in education
- International education
- Internships
- Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender issues in education
- Mainstreaming and inclusion
- Mastery learning
- Math education
- Moral education
- Multiculturalism
- Museum education
- Peace education
- Physical education
- Problem-based learning
- Reading, history of, use in schools
- Religion, in schools
- Right-wing politics, advocates, impact on education
- Risk takers, in educational administration
- Science, in curriculum
- Special education
- Writing, teaching of
- Budgeting
- Business education
- Capacity building, of organizations
- Capital outlay
- Class, social
- Collective bargaining
- Compensatory education
- Contracts, with teacher unions
- Control of education, state
- Cost-benefit analyses
- Decentralization/centralization controversy
- Digital divide
- Division of labor
- Dropouts
- Drug education
- Economics, theories of
- Educational equity
- Elastic tax
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Equality, in schools
- Equity and adequacy of funding schools
- Finance, of public schools
- Infrastructure, of organizations
- Job security
- Licensure and certification
- Lottery systems
- Market theory of schooling
- Merit pay
- Needs assessment
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Performance assessment
- Performance evaluation systems
- Personnel management
- Planning, Programming, Budgeting System
- Planning models
- Privatization
- Property tax
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Reduction in force
- Resource management
- Restructuring, of schools
- Salary and salary models
- Sales tax
- School-business partnerships
- Seniority, rule of
- Stewardship
- Taxes, to support education
- Unions, of teachers
- Voucher plans
- Work task measurement
- Working conditions, in schools
- Workplace trends
- World Bank, influence on education
- Academic freedom
- Affirmative action
- Charter schools
- Chicago school reform
- Civics, civic education
- Civics, history in schools
- Civil rights movement
- Compensatory education
- Compulsory education
- Consolidation, of school districts
- Control, managerial
- Control of education, state
- Corporal punishment
- Cultural politics, wars
- Democracy, democratic education and administration
- Department of Education
- Desegregation, of schools
- Discipline in schools
- Discrimination
- Educational equity
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Empowerment
- Equality, in schools
- Expulsion, of students
- Federal Privacy Act
- Finance, of public schools
- Flexner report
- Gallup Polls, on public education
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Head Start
- Immigration, history and impact in education
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Just cause
- Kalamazoo case
- Kentucky Education Reform Act
- Law
- Law, trends in
- Licensure and certification
- Mainstreaming and inclusion
- Math education
- Minorities, in schools
- A Nation at Risk
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
- No Child Left Behind
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Open-door policy
- Policy advocacy
- Policy Making, values of
- Politics, of education
- Privatization
- Problem-based learning
- Promotion, social
- Restructuring, of schools
- Right-wing politics, advocates, impact on education
- Rural education
- School districts, history and development
- Social relations, dimensions of
- State departments of education
- Supreme Court, United States, key cases in education law
- Taxes, to support education
- Technology and the law
- Terrorism
- Textbooks
- Unions, of teachers
- Voucher plans
- Year-round education
- Charisma, of leaders
- Conceptual systems theory and leadership
- Faculty, educational leadership programs
- Feminism and theories of leadership
- Ideology, shifts of in educational leadership preparation
- Leadership, complex theory of
- Leadership, discretionary (and power)
- Leadership, distributed
- Leadership, national standards
- Leadership, participatory
- Leadership, situational
- Leadership, social dimensions of
- Leadership, spiritual
- Leadership, system-oriented
- Leadership, task-oriented
- Leadership, teacher
- Leadership, theories of
- Leadership effectiveness
- Leadership styles
- Logic, history and use of in educational leadership
- Morality, moral leadership
- Path-goal leadership theory
- Transformational leadership
- Universities, preparation of educational leaders in
- Values of organizations and leadership
- Women in educational leadership
- Accountability
- Adaptiveness of organizations
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of School Administrators
- American Federation of Teachers
- Boards of education
- Bureaucracy
- Capacity building, of organizations
- Chain of command
- Communications, theories in organizations
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Council of Great City Schools
- Department of Education
- Education Commission of the States
- Educational Testing Service
- Ethos, of organizations
- Group dynamics
- Head Start
- Holmes Group
- Infrastructure, of organizations
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Involvement, in organizations
- League of United Latin American Citizens
- Matrix organization (the “adhocracy”)
- Mensa
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Association of Secondary School Principals
- National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- National Education Association
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Organizational design
- Organizational memory
- Organizational theories
- Organizations, types of, typologies
- Parent Teacher Association
- Partnerships, interagency
- Satisfaction, in organizations and roles
- School districts, history and development
- School plant management
- School safety
- School-business partnerships
- Schools of education
- Staffing, concepts of
- State departments of education
- Stratification, in organizations
- Table of organization
- Unions, of teachers
- University Council for Educational Administration
- Values of organizations and leadership
- Adolescence
- Adult education
- Affective domain
- Affective education
- At-risk students
- Behavior, student
- Behaviorism
- Belonging
- Brain research and practice
- Bullying
- Career stages
- Character education
- Child development theories
- Classroom management
- Cognition, theories of
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive styles
- Cohorts
- Competition, forms of, in schools
- Compliance theory
- Conditioning theory
- Determinism, sociocultural
- Disabilities, of students
- Discipline in schools
- Early childhood education
- Egocentrism, theories of
- Emotional disturbance
- Esteem needs
- Expectations, teacher and student cultures
- Feedback
- Gender studies
- Gestalt theory and therapy
- Giftedness, gifted education
- Group dynamics
- Halo effect
- Individual differences, in children
- Language theories and processes
- Learning, theories of
- Learning environments
- Life span development
- Mental illness, in adults and children
- Motivation, theories of
- Peer interaction/friendships
- Personality
- Pygmalion effect
- Resiliency
- Role model
- Satisfaction, in organizations and roles
- Self-actualization
- Suicide, in schools
- Trait theory
- Violence in schools
- Accountability
- Architecture of schools
- Athletics in schools
- Charter schools
- Chicago school reform
- Choice, of schools
- Civics, history in schools
- Class size
- Climate, school
- Comer School Development Program
- Competition, forms of, in schools
- Consolidation, of school districts
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Council of Great City Schools
- Culture, school
- Curriculum, theories of
- Desegregation, of schools
- Discipline in schools
- Elections, of school boards, bond issues
- Equality, in schools
- Equity and adequacy of funding schools
- Esprit (school climate)
- Fascism and schools
- Finance, of public schools
- Hazards, environmental, in schools
- High schools
- Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
- Junior high schools
- Loss of position (school principal)
- Market theory of schooling
- Middle schools
- Minorities, in schools
- A Nation at Risk
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Association of Secondary School Principals
- No Child Left Behind
- Normal schools
- Prayer in school
- Professional development schools
- Reading, history of, use in schools
- Recruitment, of school administrators
- Reform, of schools
- Religion, in schools
- Restructuring, of schools
- Scheduling, types of in schools
- School districts, history and development
- School improvement models
- School plant management
- School safety
- School size
- School-business partnerships
- Schooling effects
- Schools of education
- Stress, in school administration
- Suicide, in schools
- Underachievers, in schools
- Values pluralism, in schools
- Vandalism in schools
- Violence in schools
- Voucher plans
- Working conditions, in schools
- Accreditation
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of School Administrators
- American Federation of Teachers
- Contextual teaching and learning
- Contracts, with teacher unions
- Curriculum, theories of
- Curriculum audit
- Curriculum guides
- Curriculum mapping
- Expectations, teacher and student cultures
- Faculty, educational leadership programs
- Leadership, teacher
- Licensure and certification
- National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
- Parent Teacher Association
- Parental involvement
- Student teaching
- Teacher recruitment and retention
- Team teaching
- Unions, of teachers
- Web-based teaching and learning
- Writing, teaching of
- Achievement gap, of students
- Achievement tests
- Educational Testing Service
- Effect size
- Evaluation
- Individual differences, in children
- Item response theory
- Measurement, theories of
- No Child Left Behind
- Performance assessment
- Psychometrics
- Scholastic Aptitude Test
- Standardized testing
- Testing and test theory development
- Underachievers, in schools
- Validity and reliability
- Administration, theories of
- Afrocentric theories
- Axiomatic theory
- Chaos theory
- Child development theories
- Cognition, theories of
- Cognitive dissonance
- Collaboration theory
- Communications, theories in organizations
- Compliance theory
- Conceptual systems theory and leadership
- Conditioning theory
- Constructivism
- Constructivism, social
- Contingency theories
- Creationism
- Creativity, theories of
- Critical race theory
- Critical theory
- Curriculum, theories of
- Determinism, sociocultural
- Disequilibrium, theories of
- Economics, theories of
- Efficacy theory
- Egocentrism, theories of
- Existentialism
- Fascism and schools
- Feminism and theories of leadership
- Field theory
- Flow theory
- Frame theory
- Functionalist theory
- Gestalt theory and therapy
- Great man theory
- Hierarchical developmental models
- Idealism, as philosophy in education
- Item response theory
- J-curve theory
- Language theories and processes
- Leadership, complex theory of
- Leadership, theories of
- Learning, theories of
- Liberalism
- Literacy, theories of
- Management theories
- Market theory of schooling
- Measurement, theories of
- Moral education
- Motivation, theories of
- Networking and network theory
- Open systems theory
- Organizational theories
- Path-goal leadership theory
- Perceptual control theory
- Philosophies of education
- Planning models
- Positivism, postpositivism
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism and progressivism
- Principal-agent theory
- Psychology, types of
- Qualitative research, history, theories, issues
- Queer theory
- Rational organizational theory
- Recognition theory/identity politics
- Role theory
- S-curve theory
- Satisficing theory
- Sexuality, theories of
- Subjectivism, in theory
- Systems theory/thinking
- Testing and test theory development
- Theories, use of
- Theory movement, in educational administration
- Theory X, Theory Y
- Three-factor-model, five-factor-model
- Trait theory
- Vulnerability thesis, of superintendents
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