Child & Developmental Psychology

Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A Co-research Paradigm examines how lifelong learning, becoming wise, and sharing wisdom are ...

This book explores children's social relationships in and out of the classroom. Chapters focus on the growing importance of children's friendships ...

How do young infants experience the world around them? How similar or different are infants’ experiences from adults’ experiences of similar situat...

This book gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant stude...

Child development laboratory schools are found on college and university campuses throughout the U.S. Over the last century, they have acquired a l...

Written by experienced teachers and educational researchers Phillip Adey and Michael Shayer, Really Raising Standards analyses attempts to teach ch...

Research on the topic of parent beliefs, or parent cognition, has increased tremendously since the original publication of this volume in 1985. For...

One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "milestones" which indicate what children are typically capabl...

Is personality "in the genes"?Do our infant experiences matter, even though we can’t remember them?Why do patterns repeat within the lives of indiv...

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the ...

The last decade has seen a rapid growth in our understanding of the cognitive systems that underlie mathematical learning and performance, and an i...

The last decade has seen a rapid growth in our understanding of the cognitive systems that underlie mathematical learning and performance, and an i...

Originally presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, the papers in this volume examine possible relationships between the fields of organ...

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the ...

Discussing the future value of computers as tools for cognitive development, the volume reviews past literature and presents new data from a Piaget...

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern. Abuse Between Young People: A Contextual Accoun...

Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief that children learn mathematics principally through formali...

The development of children’s minds raises fundamental questions, from how we are able to know about basic aspects of the world such as objects and...

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern. Abuse Between Young People: A Contextual Accoun...

Filling a gap in current literature on human development, this volume explores the influence of psychophysiological, behavioral, and social factors...

This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the famous and influential work of Jean Piaget and Alina Szeminska, The Child's Conception of Number...

The development of children’s minds raises fundamental questions, from how we are able to know about basic aspects of the world such as objects and...

Based on an ethnographic study conducted in a Greek community, this book celebrates the small ways people teach and learn while they are engaged in...

Developmental and Educational Psychology for Teachers brings together a range of evidence drawn from psychology to answer a number of critical educ...