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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Murray Research Center Sponsors Conference On Human Development
Some of the world’s leading human development scholars will convene at the Radcliffe Institute’s Murray Research Center on Nov. 12 and 13 for a conference on "Lives in Context: The Study of Human Development." Human development research in America is typically divided into specific age segments, and does not consistently consider the cultural and social context of development. One of the goals of the conference is to create a new professional organization that fosters cross-generational research and takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human development across the entire life span. "This is an exciting and important event," said Jacquelyn B. James, assistant director of the Murray Center and conference co-chair. "A lot of lip service is paid to the importance of life-course research as an organizing principle, but much of our professional organization and science are age-segregated and lacking in attention to the various contexts in which development occurs."Presenters and participants at "Lives in Context" will include Jacquelynne Eccles, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan; Paul Baltes, from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin; Felton Earls, professor of child psychiatry at Harvard; Greg Duncan, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University; and Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania.The conference is funded by the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University, Boston College, the University of Michigan, Tufts University, the Judge Baker Clinic, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, the Foundation for Child Development, and the W.T. Grant Foundation.
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