Essentials of Life-Span Development - Softcover

Santrock, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073405515 ISBN 13: 9780073405513

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Synopsis

The entire lifespan in 500 pages. What’s the greatest challenge in teaching the Life-Span Development course? Covering a lifetime of material in a single term. Instructors from across the country have clamored for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development. Essentials of Life-Span Development was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests and backgrounds of students taking this course. And as always with John Santrock’s texts, the latest research in the field is incorporated throughout.

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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 has taught at the University of Charleston, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked as a school psychologist and currently teaches educational psychology at the undergraduate level. In 2006, Dr. Santrock received the University of Texas at Dallas Excellence in Teaching Award. His research has included publications in the Journal of Educational Psychology 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 has been on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology and Child Development. His publications include these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Child Development, 13th Edition; Life-Span Development, 14th Edition; Adolescence, 14th Edition; Psychology, 7th Edition; and Educational Psychology, 4th Edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073405515
• ISBN 13: 9780073405513
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544