Child Development from Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach

Levine, Laura E.; Munsch, Joyce

ISBN 10: 1483393496 ISBN 13: 9781483393490

Publisher: Sage Pubns, 2015

Synopsis

This exciting chronological introduction to child development employs the lauded active learning approach of Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch’s successful topical text, inviting students to forge a personal connection to the latest topics shaping the field, including neuroscience, diversity, culture, play, and media. Using innovative pedagogy, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach reveals a wide range of real-world applications for research and theory, creating an engaging learning experience that equips students with tools they can use long after the class ends.

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Review

"This book will guide students to make the link between 'book learning' and real life experience with children and adolescents."

--Maria Pagano, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

"I loved the active learning approach. It spoke to me as an educator. I feel that incorporating this type of learning into the classroom will generate more activity in the classroom setting."

--Helen I. Green, Cuyahoga Community College

"I found that the authors did a great job of telling the story of child development. Rather than each chapter being a series of facts and concepts, each chapter wove a clear concept thread throughout each of the sections, so [that] when you finished a chapter you had a well-sown fabric of understanding."

--Lisa Huffmann, Ball State University

"I particularly like the writing style and tone. I also find the active learning approach and exercises [to be] excellent."

--Sharon DeLeon, Fullerton College

"This book is far superior in terms of pedagogical features."

--Michelle Tichy, University of Northern Iowa

"Again and again, Levine and Munsch seek to engage the reader. What could be better?"

--Tim Dickel, Creighton University

About the Author

Laura E. Levine received her PhD in developmental and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. After working with children and families at the Children's Psychiatric Hospital and in private practice in Ann Arbor for 10 years, she moved to Connecticut and was a stay-at-home mother of her two children for 6 years. She returned to academia in 1994 and taught child psychology and life span development for 20 years at Central Connecticut State University, where she is currently a professor emerita of the Department of Psychological Science. She has received three university teaching awards, and her research on the social development of young children and on the relation between media use and attention difficulties has appeared in journals such as Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Infant Mental Health Journal, Infant and Child Development, Computers and Education, and CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Dr. Levine has been very active in promoting excellence in college teaching. She was involved in the creation of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Central Connecticut State University and served on the board of the Connecticut Consortium to Enhance Learning and Teaching. She created numerous programs for faculty both at her university and at regional and national conferences. Her work on the scholarship of teaching and learning can be found in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, College Teaching and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Pubns
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483393496
• ISBN 13: 9781483393490
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 577