Child and Adolescent Development for Educators - Hardcover

Meece, Judith L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072322357 ISBN 13: 9780072322354

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 2001

Synopsis

This text is designed specifically for teacher education majors. It focuses entirely on the development of school-age children & youth & on those topics of most immediate concern to teachers: cognitive development, social and emotional development, etc.

About this title

From the Publisher

Education Oriented- the content coverage is specifically aimed at the needs of elementary and secondary classroom teachers. Each chapter opens with a school or classroom vignette and all examples are taken from school and classroom settings.

Flexibility- because it is brief and modestly priced, it can be used either as the core text in a child and adolescent development course for teachers or as part of a customized teaching package in any course (e.g., educational psychology) where school-age child development is emphasized.

Cognitive Psychology Focus- separate chapters are devoted to 1.) Constructivist theories and 2.) Information processing theories of cognitive development.

Social Context Focus- the importance of social and cultural context on development is emphasized throughout in addition to being given its own chapter (6).

Built-in-Field Guide- each chapter concludes with several pages of observation, interview, and reflection activities designed to apply key topics to student's field experiences.

About the Author

Judith L. Meece is currently the Eugene and Saralyn Oberdorfer Associate Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she teaches in the School of Education. Her book draws on over 15 years experience in teaching courses on child and adolescent development to preservice teachers and graduate students. Before coming to Chapel Hill, she taught at Purdue University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1981, where she was a fellow in the former Bush Program in Child Development and Social Policy. Professor Meece’s research focuses on academic motivation, gender differences in mathematics and science achievement, and teachers’ beliefs about children’s development. She is co-author of Students’ Perceptions in the Classroom (1992). She is currently serving as chairperson of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group on Motivation and education. She is also currently working on an oral history of Appalachian teachers, which will examine the role of education and teaching in southern women’s lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072322357
• ISBN 13: 9780072322354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2