Dolores Norton, Ph.D. Throughout her career Dr. Norton has served on numerous committees and boards. She currently serves on ten different boards and committees including the Ounce of Prevention, Center for Successful Child Development: Beethoven Project, and Chicago Center for Family Health advisory boards. Dr. Norton is also a member of several professional associations including the Center for Developmental Studies, the Council on Social Work Education, and the Society for Research on Child Development. In 1997, the School Social Service Administration commended Dr. Norton's professorial skills with the Award for Excellence in Teaching. Among Dr. Norton's special fields of interest are early child development and ecology, human development and diversity, early linguistic interaction and school achievement and literacy, temporal development in early childhood and family support practices, programs and policies.
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Research Interests Professor Norton has also successfully collected information on student behavior and social achievements as well as strictly academic achievements from the schools, the teachers and the parents. Her research will allow us to eventually identify the characteristics that describe optimal parent-child interaction and understand how these interactions may vary within socioeconomic status and ethnicity. She currently serves on ten different boards and committees including the Ounce of Prevention, Center for Successful Child Development: Beethoven Project, and Chicago Center for Family Health advisory boards.
Recent Publications Norton, D.G., Vincson, J., & Wilhelm, M.J. (forthcoming 2003). Research with high risk African American infants and children: Insights from a longitudinal study. In J.S. Jackson, C.H. Caldwell, & S. Sellers, (Eds.), Research methodology in African American communities. New York: Russell Sage Publications. Norton, D. (Fall 2000/Winter 2001). Ecology and Plurality. An ecological system framework for a pluralistic curriculum: Beyond the Dual Perspective. Alexandria, VA: Council of Social Work Education. Norton, D. (1996). Early Linguistic Interaction and School Achievement: An ethnographical, ecological perspective. Zero to Three, 16, 8-14.
Selected Courses SSA 327: Human Behavior in the Social Environment SSA 424: Foundations of Family Support
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Dr.
Dolores G. Norton has been with the School of Social Service Administration
at the University of Chicago since 1976, becoming a Professor with
the School of Social Service Administration in 1987. Dr. Norton
received her B.A from Temple University and went on to pursue a
M.S.S and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. In 1996, Dr. Norton was
honored as a Samuel Deutsch Professor with the School of Social
Service Administration.
