Understanding Children's Development
Blackwell Publishers
3rd Edition
Published on 8. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-631-19412-5 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
glossary
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
1044 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19412-5 (9780631194125)
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Peter K. Smith | Helen Cowie | Marc Blades
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Content
Part I: 1. Studying Development. 2. The Biological Perspective. Part II: 3. Parents and Families. 4. Friends and School. 5. Becoming Socially Aware. 6. Play. 7. Helping Others and Moral Development. 8. Adolescence. Part III: 9. Perception. 10. Language. 11. Cognition - Piaget's Theory. 12. Cognition - Information Processing and Memory. 13. Theory of Mind. 14. Learning in a Social Context. 15. Intelligence and Attainment. 16. Disadvantage and Education. Glossary.