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This edition has been adapted from Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda's US-originating textbook
Child Development: Context, Culture and Cascades (2021) and tailored to the teaching and learning needs of the UK and Europe higher education psychology curriculum.
Placing particular emphasis on context and culture,
Child Development unpacks the fundamentals of the subject whilst spurring students to explore the forces behind change in children. Evaluating both theory and evidence, students will discern developmental cascades and understand the interdependencies of different domains and levels across time.
List of contents
- Part 1: Foundations of child development
- 1: Goals and theories
- 2: Research methods
- 3: Heredity, environment, and the brain
- 4: Prenatal and postnatal health and physical development
- Part 2: Infancy and toddlerhood
- 5: Perceptual and motor development in infancy and toddlerhood
- 6: Cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood
- 7: Language development in infancy and toddlerhood
- 8: Emotional and social development in infancy and toddlerhood
- Part 3: Early childhood
- 9: Physical development and health in early childhood
- 10: Cognitive and language development in early childhood
- 11: Emotional and social development in early childhood
- 12: Challenges in child development: infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood
- Part 4: Middle childhood
- 13: Cognitive development in middle childhood
- 14: Emotional and social development in middle childhood
- Part 5: Adolescence
- 15: Cognitive development in adolescence
- 16: Emotional and social development in adolescence
- 17: Challenges in child development: middle childhood and adolescence
About the author
Catherine Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt, where she examines learning and development in social and cultural contexts. She has co-authored a number of titles on parenting and early child development and serves as an associate editor of the
Journal of Experimental Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Catherine is the sole author of the US-originating edition of this textbook which published in 2021:
Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades.
Steffie van der Steen and
Hester Duffy are co-authors of this UK and Europe adaptation of Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda's textbook.
Steffie van der Steen (Ed.M. Harvard University, PhD University of Groningen) is an Associate Professor in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) where she teaches courses on child rearing and development. Her main research topics include animal-assisted interventions, special needs education and teacher-student interactions.
Hester Duffy (PhD University of Plymouth) is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick, where she teaches both developmental psychology and research methods. Her research interests focus on early language acquisition, and in particular the impact of infant-directed speech, and the acquisition of minoritized languages (especially Irish).
Summary
Placing particular emphasis on context and culture, Child Development unpacks the fundamentals of the subject whilst spurring students to explore the forces behind change in children. Evaluating both theory and evidence, students will discern developmental cascades and understand the interdependencies of different domains and levels across time.
