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Zusammenfassung Offers a thorough introduction to the aspects of human development, which are of most importance in the classroom. Dennis McInerney outlines the stages of physical, motor and cognitive development from birth to early adulthood, explaining the relationship between heredity and environment.
List of contents
Preface
1: Developmental psychology: Themes and research
2: Heredity, environment and special learning needs
3: Physical and motor development: Infancy to late childhood
4: Physical and motor development: Puberty to adulthood and development health issues
5: Cognition and cognitive development: Infancy to late childhood
6: Cognitive development: Adolescence to adulthood
7: Conceptions of intelligence and creativity in childhood and adolescence
8: Cognition and information processing in childhood and adolescence
9: Personal and social development in childhood
10: Personal and social development in adolescence
11: Moral development in childhood and adolescence
Glossary of key terms
References and further reading
Index
About the author
Dennis M. McInerney is Professor of Educational Psychology and Associate Director of the Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. He is co-author of the respected text
Educational Psychology:Constructing Learning, and publishes widely on educational psychology in international journals.
