Charles M. Super
Encyclopedia
Charles M. Super Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at University of Connecticut
. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School
and the Harvard School of Public Health
. He has directed or participated in research projects on early human development and family life in the Netherlands, Kenya, Zambia, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Bangladesh, as well as the United States. He has won a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Connecticut School of Family Studies Alumni Association.
Super was member of the 1970 White House Conference on Children.
Like others in his field of study, Super holds that even within a given society, different cognitive characteristics are emphasized from one situation to another and from one subculture to another. These differences extend not just to conceptions of intelligence but to what is considered adaptive or appropriate in a broader sense. Super calls for culturally- and contextually-based models of human development. See Developmental niche
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October 1995, Hardcover
University of Connecticut
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. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
and the Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, which is next to Harvard Medical School. HSPH is considered a significant school focusing on health in the...
. He has directed or participated in research projects on early human development and family life in the Netherlands, Kenya, Zambia, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Bangladesh, as well as the United States. He has won a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Connecticut School of Family Studies Alumni Association.
Super was member of the 1970 White House Conference on Children.
Publications
Super's writings have been published in psychological, anthropological, and medical journals.Like others in his field of study, Super holds that even within a given society, different cognitive characteristics are emphasized from one situation to another and from one subculture to another. These differences extend not just to conceptions of intelligence but to what is considered adaptive or appropriate in a broader sense. Super calls for culturally- and contextually-based models of human development. See Developmental niche
Developmental niche
The developmental niche is a theoretical framework for understanding and analyzing how culture shapes child development. Developed by Charles M. Super and Sara Harkness...
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Books
- Life Roles, Values, and Careers: International Findings of the Work Importance Study by Donald E. Super, Branimir Sverko, Charles M. Super
October 1995, Hardcover
- Variability in the Social Construction of the Child: New Directions for Child and Adolescent by Sara Harkness, Catherine Raeff, Charles M. Super
- Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences. Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996. 558 pp.
- Opportunities in Psychology Careers by Charles M. Super, Donald E., Ph.D. Super, Blythe Camenson, and Joanne E., Ph.D. Callan
- Role of Culture in Developmental Disorder by Charles M. Super