Child & Developmental Psychology

Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understan...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, p...

Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adoles...

Co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)An important contribution to the emerging body of rese...

Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

Identity is defined in many different ways in various disciplines in the social sciences and sub-disciplines within psychology. The developmental p...

With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications ov...

Young Children Learning Through Schemas is a creative and highly engaging text that shows how young children can learn through exploring repeated p...

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on se...

Second edition, completely revised and updatedJohn Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edit...

This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians - performers, music educators, and st...

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience is a seminal reference work in the burgeoning field of developmental behavioral neuros...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale stu...

Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of ol...

This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity...

Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency. Specifically, we have learned...

The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-w...

Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology...

Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties serves to provide an explanation of the complex workings of inner family life. The ...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of ol...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

Originally published in 1993, this monograph addresses a central problem in Piaget’s work, which is the temporal construction of necessary knowledg...

How do we make sense of people? Human behaviour is complex, so that understanding ourselves and others calls for both objective and subjective view...

Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music edu...

First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and Ne...

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated i...

This special issue reports the findings from eight studies which examined children’s national identifications and national attitudes. Data were col...

Originally published in 1986, in this compendium of recent research on children’s play, acknowledged experts review the latest methodologies and id...

Originally published in 1978, contemporary theory and research into childhood social development had demonstrated the necessity to re-appraise the ...

The concept of Bildung-Psychology, as developed by Christiane Spiel and her colleagues, combines ideas from developmental and educational psycholog...

Play is the child’s way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation f...

Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology...

Play is the child’s way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation f...

This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have be...

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement, but also, paradoxically, with higher relationship conflict, care...

Originally published in 1993, this book presents an alternative approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during childhood: a ne...

How do we make sense of people? Human behaviour is complex, so that understanding ourselves and others calls for both objective and subjective view...

Originally published in 1974, this volume is primarily devoted to what is known about human infancy from an ethological, evolutionary viewpoint. In...

Originally published in 1986, in this compendium of recent research on children’s play, acknowledged experts review the latest methodologies and id...

This volume features new findings by nine interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. Nine chapters bring...

Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that chil...

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement, but also, paradoxically, with higher relationship conflict, care...

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It ...

Originally published in 1991, this monograph presents pioneering work on the growth and development of triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets. Twelv...