Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
Study
By: Robert Coles
Date: 1967
Source: Coles, Robert. Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967, 363–368.
About the Author: Robert Coles (1929–) was born in Boston. After graduating from Harvard University (1950), he earned a medical degree at Columbia University (1954) and served a number of residencies in the field of child psychiatry. He was an Air Force neuropsychiatrist from 1958 to 1960. He has since worked as a child psychiatrist, professor at Harvard Univerity, and writer of more than fifty books exploring the development of children. His work focuses especially on social justice for children. In 2003, he was the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard.
Introduction
As an Air Force neuropsychiatrist stationed in Mississippi in 1958, Robert Coles began to notice the injustices and power...
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