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Article: Childhood's chronicler: Robert Coles has spent three decades crafting a psychological tapestry of children's lives. (Science & Society)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- December 3, 1990
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Robert Coles has spent three decades crafting a psychological tapestry of children's lives
It first glance, it seems a classroom like many others, a room filled with 4 and 5-year-olds busily pasting pieces of colored paper on bottles. But there is something odd about the scene. In the midst of the children kneels a man in late middle age with sticky white paste all over his fingers. Clad in chinos and a blue work shirt, he chats with two of the children as he pastes. An outsider might surmise that the man is a visiting grandfather or a community volunteer. In fact, he is Robert Coles, a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard University who has told us more about ...