Child Development

Originally published in 1974, the second volume of four (Logical Inference: Underlying Operations) provides a process-model for the solution of certain syllogistic reasoning problems...

Originally published in 1976, this fourth and final volume in a series that met with critical acclaim is concerned with a certain kind of answer to the question "What distinguishes the concepts that are a natural part of human languages from those that are merely expressible in language?" ..

All children possess a motive to ‘master’ the various tasks and problems that they face. Concentrating on pre-school children, this volume, originally published in 1993, brought together current research work and thinking concerned with mastery motivation at the time. With a broad range of internati..

In this now classic, Patricia M. Greenfield argues that each medium can make a contribution to development, that each has strengths and weaknesses, and that the ideal childhood environment includes a multimedia approach to learning...

This title, originally published in 1993, proposed a new and advanced frame of reference to account for the growing body of empirical work on the emergence of communication processes at the time. The international contributors give a multi-disciplinary account of the expansion, variety and richness ..

Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together a wide range of perspectives and research locating young children’s relationships in the context of socio-cultural theories and relational pedagogy...

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play...

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing. Even when illness is not an issue, play promotes wellbeing by its power to reimagine, invigo..

This fully revised edition of Play for Children with Special Needs includes new research findings and explains their implications for practice...

First published in 1979, a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children. Eminent research workers attempt to cross the theoretical, empirical, and methodological barriers that had traditionally separated the study of preverbal infants from t..

Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time...

First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand in the field of Child Development...