James G. Elicker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Developmental Studies
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
  
Office: Fowler House, Room #206 
Purdue University 
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1269 
  
Phone: (765) 494-2938 
Fax: (765) 494-0503 
Email: elickerj@cfs.purdue.edu 

Major Interests and Activities: 
Dr. Elicker studies attachment and early caregiving relationships, social-emotional development and teacher-child relationships and interactions across cultures, child care for low income families, and evaluation of early childhood education programs. 
  
Member, Editorial Board, Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Early Education and Development. 
  
  
Representative Publications: 
Elicker, J. (2000). From inquiry to practice: Full-day kindergarten. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa International.
Elicker, J., Fortner-Wood, C., & Noppe, I.C. (1999). The context of infant attachment in family child care. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 20(3), 319-336.
  
Elicker, J. (1998). The real world(s?) of children's relationships. (Review of Bigelow, B., Tesson, G., & Lewko, J.H., Learning the rules: The anatomy of children's relationships.) Contemporary Psychology, 43(1), 47-48. 
  
Elicker, J. & Mathur, S. (1997). What do they do all day? Comprehensive evaluation of a full-day kindergarten. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 12, 459-480. 
  
Elicker, J., Noppe, I. C., Noppe, L. D., & Fortner-Wood, C. (1997). The Parent-Caregiver Relationship Scale: Rounding out the relationship system in infant child care. Early Education & Development, 8(1), 83-100. 
  
Elicker, J. (1997). Developing a relationship perspective in early childhood program research. Early Education & Development, 8(1), 5-10. (Introduction to the special issue, “Relationships in Early Childhood Programs”).   
Elicker, J. & Fortner-Wood, C. (1995). Research in review: Adult-child relationships in early childhood settings. Young Children, 51(1), 69-78. 
  
Elicker, J. (1995). A knitting tale: Reflections on scaffolding. Childhood Education, 72(1), 29-32. 
  
Elicker, J., Englund, M., & Sroufe, L.A. (1992). Predicting peer competence and peer relationships in childhood from early parent child-relationships. In R. Parke & G. Ladd, (Eds.), Family-peer relationships: Modes of linkage. (pp. 77-106). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.