Understanding Children's Development - Couverture souple

Smith, Peter K.; Cowie, Helen; Blades, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631194126 ISBN 13 : 9780631194125

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This leading child development text has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and its rigorous research-based approach. It begins by introducing the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes before going on to consider all major aspects of development, including biological, social, moral and cognitive components. For the fourth edition, the entire text has been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. Major revisions include: coverage of a range of theoretical perspectives - from evolutionary developmental psychology to cultural-ecological and social-constructionist viewpoints a new chapter on prenatal development and birth extensive new material on developments in attachment theory extended discussion of implications of the social contexts of learning for cognition and education recent perspectives on disadvantage.Each chapter provides lucid discussion of the material, enlivened by the inclusion of revealing case studies, and ideas for classroom discussion. Throughout the text the practical and applied implications of developmental research are emphasized and discussed.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This leading child development text has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and its rigorous research–based approach. It begins by introducing the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes before going on to consider all major aspects of development, including biological, social, moral and cognitive components.

For the fourth edition, the entire text has been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. Major revisions include:

coverage of a range of theoretical perspectives from evolutionary developmental psychology to cultural–ecological and social–constructionist viewpoints

a new chapter on prenatal development and birth

extensive new material on developments in attachment theory

extended discussion of implications of the social contexts of learning for cognition and education

recent perspectives on disadvantage. Each chapter provides lucid discussion of the material, enlivened by the inclusion of revealing case studies, and ideas for classroom discussion. Throughout the text the practical and applied implications of developmental research are emphasized and discussed.

Revue de presse

There is no other book on the market that comes near in its scholarship, coverage and accessibility. Professor Martyn Barrett, University of Surrey

A very valuable text for everyone interested in children′s development. Professor Judith Dunn, Institute of Psychiatry, King′s College London Understanding Children′s Developmentis one of the best introductory treatments of this discipline that I know. Professor C. Philip Hwang, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631194126
• ISBN 13: 9780631194125
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible