Stuart G. Shanker (born October 14, 1952[1]) is a research professor emeritus of philosophy and psychology at York University,[2] the founder/CEO of The MEHRIT Centre,[3] and an author and speaker.[4] He has been called an expert on child self-regulation in schools.[5][6][7]
Education
editShanker began his university education at the University of Toronto, Ontario.[8] He won several awards while there, including a scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.[9] While studying at Oxford, he obtained a first in PPE.[10] He completed his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded the position of postdoctoral research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.[1] In 1986, he began as an associate professor of philosophy at York University, where he became full professor of philosophy in 1989.[1]
Books
editShanker's books include:
- Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (And You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life (with Teresa Barker, 2016)[11]
- Calm, Alert, and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation (2012)[12]
- El Rizoma de la Racionalidad (with Pedro Reygadas, 2008)[13]
- Early Years Study 2: Putting Science into Action (with James Fraser Mustard and Margaret McCain, 2007)[14]
- Human Development in the 21st Century (edited with Alan Fogel and Barbara J. King, 2007)[15]
- The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans (with Stanley Greenspan, 2004)[16]
- Apes, Language, and the Human Mind (with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Talbot Taylor, 1998).[17]
Self-Reg (2016) is a parenting book that explains how to support self-regulation in children by alleviating the negative impact of stress.[11] According to Shanker, many behaviour, mood, emotional, learning and developmental problems are caused or exacerbated by an overactive stress system. Shanker proposes a method, called Self-Reg, for managing stress and energy flow in order to reduce the impact of an overactive stress response system on children's day-to-day functioning and development. The method starts with reframing children's behaviour and emotional problems as stress problems and identifying and reducing stressors in the five domains discussed in Calm, Alert and Learning. The book identifies hidden stressors that affect some children in our society and also discusses the epidemic of stress and anxiety in today's children and parents.
Calm, Alert, and Learning (2012) is a practical guide for educators and parents about the recent research into self-regulation, explaining the crucial difference between self-regulation and self-control.[12] Whereas the latter refers to the effort required to inhibit impulses, the former addresses the causes of those impulses in the first place. The book takes the reader through the five principal domains of self-regulation (physical, emotion, cognitive, social and prosocial) and how stresses unique to each of these domains impact all of the others, creating a multiplier effect. All too often, such stresses result in problems with attention, emotion regulation, or behaviour that are mistakenly seen as due to poor self-control or lack of effort when, in fact, they are the result of a heightened stress load. The reader is presented with practical methods of reducing the respective stresses in a classroom context.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Stuart Shanker CV" (PDF). www.cendi.org. Centros de Desarrollo Infantil del Frente Popular "Tierra y Libertad". 2007-06-06. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-31.
- ^ "Distinguished Research Professors". vpap.info.yorku.ca. York University: Vice-President Academic & Provost. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Stuart Shanker". greatergood.berkeley.edu. The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Nurturing the Next Generation (NTNG)". www.peelregion.ca. Peel Public Health. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Expert on student self-regulation to speak in Surrey". Peace Arch News. July 23, 2012. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Peterborough parent group hosts event on child self-regulation on Wednesday". Peterborough This Week. My Kawartha. November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ Breen, Gemma (February 20, 2020). "Tantrums and after-school meltdowns are normal, but you can stop them in their tracks". ABC News. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Shanker, Stuart G. – Contemporary Authors". www.encyclopedia.com. 2006. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Stuart Shanker" (PDF). news.exec.gov.nt.ca. Government of Northwest Territories. 2013-01-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Stuart Shanker". www.hshf.org. Healthy Start, Healthy Future. Archived from the original on 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ a b Shanker, Stuart; Barker, Teresa (2016). Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (And You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9781594206092. OCLC 929055640.
- ^ a b Shanker, Stuart (2013). Calm, Alert, and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation. Don Mills, Ontario: Pearson Canada. ISBN 9780132927130. OCLC 812485046.
- ^ Reygadas, Pedro; Shanker, Stuart (2007). El rizoma de la racionalidad: el sustrato emocional del lenguaje (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Grupo Editorial Cenzontle. ISBN 9789709929065. OCLC 320809383.
- ^ McCain, Margaret Norrie; Mustard, J. Fraser; Shanker, Stuart (March 2007). Early Years Study 2: Putting Science Into Action (PDF). Toronto: Council for Early Child Development. OCLC 246923137.
- ^ Fogel, Alan; King, Barbara J.; Shanker, Stuart, eds. (2008). Human Development in The Twenty-First Century: Visionary Ideas From Systems Scientists. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489693. ISBN 9780521881975. OCLC 175284081.
- ^ Greenspan, Stanley I.; Shanker, Stuart (2004). The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0738206806. OCLC 55131380.
- ^ Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue; Shanker, Stuart; Taylor, Talbot J. (1998). Apes, Language, and the Human Mind. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195109864. OCLC 38566026.