Child Development category: 2058 books
The Development of Children’s Thinking
Its Social and Communicative Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
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The Development of Children’s Thinking* offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction...
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
Learning from Specific Models, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The second volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference addressing how after-school programs can promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. It examines summer learning...
The Power of Showing Up
How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
What’s the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood.
One of the very best scientific predictors for...
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition
For Their Early Years -- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Completely updated with the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will help parents understand their preschooler and provide early methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.
Caring for young children is one of...
Aspects of Playwork
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
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Cognitive Development
Neo-Piagetian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and...
Moral Development
A Psychological Study of Moral Growth from Childhood to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of Goldman with a child’s religious thought, there had hitherto been no comparable book on child morality to complete the developmental picture of the time. Originally published in 1968 William Kay’s book...
Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy
Spiritual Development in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy offers a series of thoughtful practices for child care providers to nurture a child’s spiritual development—an extension of social-emotional learning. The book helps educators introduce young children to a system that begins with love and leads to a strong sense...
The Orchid and the Dandelion
Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
**"Based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children--and the adults who love them."
--Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts.
A book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, and child...
Welcoming Consciousness
Supporting Babies' Wholeness from the Beginning of Life–An Integrated Model of Early Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology has been studying our earliest development from the baby's point of view for over 30 years. Findings reveal we are conscious, aware beings who already have a sense of self as we begin human life. This book explores the mysteries of our multidimensional nature and...
The Child at School
Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
What is the nature of children’s social life in school?
How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school?
This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers...
Psychological Development From Infancy
Image to Intention
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children. In each chapter, eminent research workers attempt to cross the theoretical, empirical, and methodological barriers that had traditionally...
The Child's Curriculum
Working with the Natural Values of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
All children are born with emotional talent. But if left untended, those talents can wane during the first five years of life. Children are sensitive and social beings from birth, exhibiting an innate enthusiasm for communication that must be satisfied for healthy development. If their feelings, agency,...