With PowerWeb (Topical Approach to Life-Span Development) - Hardcover

Santrock, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072502843 ISBN 13: 9780072502848

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2001

Synopsis

John Santrock has written the first four-color topically oriented text for the life-span development course. This topical organization will allow instructors to focus more on research and to show students how broad concepts of development apply to different stages of life. For the student, the text contains the proven Santrock pedagogy retooled for this higher level approach.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072502843
• ISBN 13: 9780072502848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 579