Educational Psychology - Softcover

Santrock, John W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072906367 ISBN 13: 9780072906363

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 2000

Synopsis

This fresh, innovative, involving full-color text emphasizes and integrates important contemporary themes such as diversity, technology, and development issues within a constructivist framework. Long noted as an author who helps students understand complex material by using an understandable writing style and successful in-text student pedagogy, Santrock here includes effective self-assessments, concept maps, summary tables, Educational Psychology Checklists, page-referenced cross-linkages, and Adventures for the Mind. An expert research consultant and/or master teacher reviewed each chapter of the book. Most citations are from 1998-2000.

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About the Author:

John W. Santrock received his Ph.D. from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches developmental psychology and educational psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and introductory psychology at the undergraduate level. Dr. Santrock's research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. His research has included publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology that focus on the contextual aspects of affectively-toned cognition and children's self-regulatory behavior as well as teachers' perceptions of children from divorced families. He recently was a member of the editorial board of Developmental Psychology and his publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Eighth Edition; LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT, Seventh Edition; CHILDREN, Sixth Edition; PSYCHOLOGY, Sixth Edition; and EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072906367
• ISBN 13: 9780072906363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 51