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Child Development
An Active Learning Approach
Fourth Edition
- Laura E. Levine - Central Connecticut State University, USA
- Joyce Munsch - California State University, Northridge, USA
January 2021 | 680 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, Fourth Edition, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch take students on an active journey toward understanding children and their development. Active Learning activities integrated throughout the text capture student interest and turn reading into an engaged learning process. Through the authors’ active learning philosophy, students are challenged to test their knowledge, confront common misconceptions, relate the material to their own experiences, and participate in real-world activities independently and with children. Because consuming research is equally important in the study of child development, Journey of Research features provide both historical context and its links to today’s cutting-edge research studies. Students will discover the excitement of studying child development while gaining skills they can use long after course completion.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
PART I. UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT: WHY AND HOW WE STUDY CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
CHAPTER 1. Issues and Themes in Child Development
CHAPTER 2. Theories of Development
CHAPTER 3. How We Study Development
PART II. BIOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 4. Nature Through Nurture: Genes and Environment
CHAPTER 5. Prenatal Development, the Newborn, and the Transition to Parenthood
CHAPTER 6. Physical Development: The Brain and the Body
PART III. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 7. Theories of Cognitive Development
CHAPTER 8. Intelligence and Academic Achievement
CHAPTER 9. Language Development
PART IV. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 10. Emotional Development and Attachment
CHAPTER 11. Identity: The Self, Gender, and Moral Development
CHAPTER 12. Social Development: Social Cognition and Peer Relationships
PART V. CONTEXTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 13. Families
CHAPTER 14. Activities, Media, and the Natural World
CHAPTER 15. Health, Well-Being, and Resilience
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Supplements
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The open-access Student Study Site makes it easy for students to maximize their study time, anywhere, anytime. It offers flashcards that strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts, as well as learning objectives that reinforce the most important material.
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The open-access Student Study Site makes it easy for students to maximize their study time, anywhere, anytime. It offers flashcards that strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts, as well as learning objectives that reinforce the most important material.
Organization of topics.
Easy to read.
Good instructor support materials.
Education, East Tennessee State Univ
April 19, 2023
The text addresses core topics covered in the course that I teach. Supporrting resources are student and professor friendly.
Elem/Early Childhood Ed Dept, Cuny Queens College
August 17, 2022
The online components are strong. The culturally responsive details are aspects I need to emphasize in this course.
Humanities, Education, and the Arts, Cumberland University
April 14, 2021
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1. Issues and Themes in Child Development
Chapter 2. Theories of Development