Through four editions, The Development of Children has provided students and instructors with a rigorous textbook that encompasses both scientific research and the authors' years of practical experience. For the Fifth Edition, Michael and Shelia Cole are joined by Cynthia Lightfoot, whose expertise and engaging style further enhances this well-respected book. Throughout the text, all three authors encourage students to better understand their own lives, as well as the process of development.

The Development of Children

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lightfoot, Cynthia

COLE, MICHAEL

Cole, Sheila R.

Psychology & Counseling

Worth Publishers

Like no other text, The Development of Children tells the story of how biological and cultural processes intertwine over the course of childhood. Building on the legacy of Michael and Sheila Cole, and now under the lead authorship of Cynthia Lightfoot, this acclaimed textbook enters an exciting new era, bringing an integrated biocultural perspective to the teaching and learning of childdevelopment. Within the chronological organization of the book, you will find a continued emphasis on contemporary research, biology and the brain, the linking of theory to practice, and the emphasis on cultural issues that have earned the textbook enthusiastic support edition after edition. But you will also find a fresh new vision and voice. This thoroughly revised text guides students through the latest scholarship on the biological and cultural processes that frame the interacting physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains of development.

The Development of Children & Study Guide

Like no other text, The Development of Children tells the story of how biological and cultural processes intertwine over the course of childhood.

Development of Children& Video Toolkit Online Access Card

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. Also Available: Updated 8th Edition

The Development of Children (loose leaf) & Video Toolkit Access Card

Exploring childhood developmemt chronologically, Developmemt of Children highlights those biological and culture factors that impact all children universally as well as those that create diverse patterns as the child matures.

Cole, Sheila

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The Development of Children

The Development of Children

The Development of Children & Study Guide

Development of Children& Video Toolkit Online Access Card

The Development of Children

The Development of Children (loose leaf) & Video Toolkit Access Card

The Development of Children