Understanding child development is crucial for all early years practitioners and a sound knowledge of children and their development underpins effective practice.
This book is a way of sharing insights empirically gathered, over decades of interactive media development, by the author and other children's designers.
The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers.
Officially endorsed by The Theraplay(R) Institute, this handbook builds on the core concepts of Theraplay(R) and explores innovative ways to integrate the approach with other therapeutic models for diverse settings and client groups.
Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing is a practical guide that shows you how to make retirement successful, based on the most up-to-date research available.
Als Beitrag zur empirischen Grundlagenforschung zum Philosophieren mit Kindern beschreibt diese qualitative Längsschnittstudie kognitive und soziale Entwicklungsprozesse.
The popular image, derived from Piaget, of the child as a solitary thinker struggling to construct a personal understanding of the mathematical and logical properties of the physical world has given way in recent years to a view of children's learning and thinking as embedded in social relationships.
This second, thoroughly updated edition of The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media analyzes a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media.
Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cognition.
This book reports the work of a 20-year collaboration between a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and developmental scientists who have created and investigated a new tool to elicit and analyze children's narratives.
This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up sections: music parents.
In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed into concepts.
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings.
This important book considers how youth of color and other marginalized youth experience socio-cultural deprivation from the repetition of traumatic socio-historic experiences as well as from the institutions they interact with such as schools, mental health organizations, and social services agencies.
As the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive and systematic overview of Spanish language acquisition research, The Acquisition of Spanish: A Research Overview in Multilingual Learning Contexts discusses a range of theoretical perspectives that outline issues surrounding language learning and the gaps in its research and teaching.
Aimed at students and practitioners involved in supporting such children, and designed to give them an insight into what it means to raise a child with such multiple needs.
Serving Military and Veteran Families introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life.
Cognitive Development provides a detailed and accessible account of three main areas: theories of cognitive development, the development of measured intelligence and the development of moral understanding.
Originally published in 1933, this volume was the result of many years' careful first-hand study of child psychology enriched by the author's unusually wide experience in dealing with the subject with students.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 68, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.
As the oldest members of the baby boomer generation head into their retirement years, this demographic shift is having a substantial influence on uses of mass media, as well as the images portrayed in these media.
This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood.
Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father.
Trotz vielfältiger erfolgreicher Anstrengungen zur Qualitätssteigerung des pädagogischen Alltags in Kindertagesstätten ist der Anteil der Kinder mit frühen schulischen Anpassungs- und Lernproblemen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten erheblich angestiegen.
This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology.
