The Development of Children / Edition 7

by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole

Overview

The Development of Children has long been acclaimed for its authoritative chronological exploration of how the lives of children are shaped by biological and cultural factors.  In this thoroughly updated new edition, lead author Cynthia Lightfoot builds on the legacy of original authors Michael and Sheila Cole, offering a lively, engaging, and always accessible examination of child development as a process involving the whole child within multiple, mutually influencing contexts. Throughout, the emphasis is on how the interaction of biology and culture contributes both to the universal pathways of development shared by all children  and to the diverse developmental patterns that unfold in the lives of individual children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429243285
Publisher:	Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/28/2012
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	667
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Cynthia Lightfoot is Professor and Head of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. Her published works focus on the sociocultural contexts of child and adolescent development, most recently, on teen pregnancy, identity development, and youth culture. Lightfoot has served on the editorial boards of Culture and Psychology and Cognitive Development, and as Vice President of the Jean Piaget Society. Her interest in children and adolescents was fueled by experiences working with emotionally disturbed and autistic children in schools and as a child development specialist in a program for teenage mothers.

Michael Cole is an all-University of California Professor of Psychology, Communication, and Human Development. His home base is University of California, San Diego, where he is the Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. For many years he spent his afternoons participating with children and undergraduates in development-enhancing after-school programs. He is an editor of the journal Mind, Culture and Activity. He has published widely on the role of culture and schooling in development for which he has been awarded honorary degrees at Copenhagen University and the University of Helsinki. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academies of Education (of the United States and Russia).

Sheila Cole is a former journalist who specialized in writing about families, children, development, and education. She is also a children's writer. Her most recent book offers a history of American childhood and is written for young people. She has also authored picture books, historical fiction, and novels for young adults. She participates in literacy programs for homeless adolescents.

Table of Contents

1. The Study of Human Development

Part I In the Beginning
2. Biocultural Foundations
3. Prenatal Development and Birth

Part II Infancy
4. The First Three Months
5. Physical and Cognitive Development in the First Two Years
6. Emotional and Social Development during Infancy

Part III Early Childhood
7. Language Acquisition
8. Physical and Cognitive Development of Early Childhood
9. Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood
10. Contexts of Development

Part IV Middle Childhood
11. Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
12. School as a Context for Development
13. Social and Emotional Developments in Middle Childhood

Part V Adolescence
14. Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
15. Social and Emotional Development during Adolescence