This is a must read issue of Child Development, a publication of SRCD. Would love to see FCSRJ do something like this. People need to understand how research connects to their daily lives. More importantly, research needs to be focused on improving the quality of people's lives. If we can't or won't reach out to the public, then ultimately we haven't accomplish a thing. Translational research should really be what a Family and Consumer Sciences is all about.
Raising Healthy Children: Translating Child Development Research Into Practice - Guerra - 2011 - Child Development - Wiley Online Library
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, called Home Economics "an important female ghetto," and asked, "What other group of American women did so much, all over the country, and got so little credit? " In the 21st century, we remain relevant, even as our programs are dismantled. Here's a place to come together and discuss pressing issues.
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