Student Text (Discovering Child Development) - Softcover

Martin, Carol Lynn; Fabes, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547003617 ISBN 13: 9780547003610

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Synopsis

Cengage Learning is pleased to welcome the author team of Carol Lynn Martin and Richard Fabes, and to offer their Discovering Child Development in a new edition aligned with our robust technology program. With targeted pedagogy, an unsurpassed illustration program that appeals to visual learners, and an emphasis on linking critical thinking about the issues to the real world, this text is ideally structured for chronological child development courses. The authors demonstrate the ways in which people, contexts, and experiences affect development, and why this stage of life is so unique.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Lynn Martin, Ph.D., has been a professor of child development at Arizona State University for more than 15 years. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Council on Family Relations and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Martin has been associate editor for Developmental Psychology and was a member of the editorial board of Child Development. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters, including a co-authored chapter in the new edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology. Most of these publications are in the areas of gender-role development and the cognitive processes underlying it. She is married to Richard Fabes, and away from work she enjoys yoga, tennis, traveling, and reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547003617
• ISBN 13: 9780547003610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 651