Child Development

A hands-on lab manual in child development. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive and social development. Projects are preceded by background essays on the history of that topic, related research, theoretical issues, and controversies...

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Projects are preceded by ba..

This volume catches some seven hundred Nottingham children at a critical stage of their development: in transition from infant to junior school, they are moving out of the protective family orbit and into the wider social world of street, playground and classroom, where cultural pressures make thems..

Using rich observational data gathered in her extended longitudinal study, as well as skills acquired during a six year collaboration with Professor Judy Dunn, the author successfully integrates both cognitive and social accounts of theory of mind...

Technology Play and Brain Development brings together current research on play development, learning technology, and brain development...

Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children’s reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems...

The Future of Child Development Lab Schools explores ways to enhance the viability of child development laboratories through the creation of a research consortium that provides a model for enacting Applied Developmental Science (ADS)...

Originally published in France in 1951, this English translation was published in 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to assimilate those..

This accessible, engaging and informative book examines the different influences on child development, according to science. There is a lot of science about children, from new work in neuroscience and attachment, to evolutionary theory and genetics. This book brings it all together to see how the sc..

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene. It represents a systematic inquiry into the social and emotional behaviour of pre-school children as observed from day to day in a nur..

This book clarifies the construct of metacognition so that researchers and teachers can develop a better understanding of it. This is an important and broad ranging contribution, which can be drawn upon and applied in many related areas, by researchers, psychologists, teachers and any profession int..

First published in 1979 this title is richly observant, it follows the child’s development in play from using the mother or father as the ‘first and best toy’, through the exploratory and manipulative sequences, to the use of toys in ritual, symbolic or contemplative ways...