Children - Softcover

Santrock, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073532002 ISBN 13: 9780073532004

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Synopsis

John Santrock’s Children combines proven pedagogy and the most current research to provide a market leading presentation of child development. This time tested text provides compelling contemporary research, including updates from eight leading experts in the field. The text's accessible presentation, plentiful applications and engaging writing foster increased mastery of the content. The new edition includes substantially expanded material on subjects including children's health and well-being, parenting and education, diversity, culture, and gender.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0073532002
• ISBN 13: 9780073532004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704