Child & Developmental Psychology

Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a B...

Originally published in 1984, this title looks at the development of temperament in early life. At the time of publication there were three major p...

‘How do children see the world?’ is a question of immense importance which fascinates not only psychologists but also parents and all those concern...

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in ...

Originally published in 1974: ‘This book sets forth a theory of cognitive development based on simple but powerful processes of inference. The theo...

Addresses the complex & divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity & the English Only movement in U.S. education. O...

Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a B...

Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educator...

Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn – that is, the interdepend...

The influence of teacher expectations on student outcomes is routinely explored by professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, ...

Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time. The ...

There is commonly-held belief that some people learn better than others because they are born that way. However, research indicates that many peopl...

Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span presents perspectives from leading researchers and theorists on the development of executive f...

The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Langua...

There is commonly-held belief that some people learn better than others because they are born that way. However, research indicates that many peopl...

Bringing together sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives, this cutting‐edge overview of codeswitching examines language mixing i...

Child and Adolescent Development is a rich and continuously evolving field that offers a wealth of career opportunities. Careers in Child and Adole...

Originally published in 1951, this title is a study in developmental psychology with special reference to the effect of various types of religion o...

Conceptual change, how conceptual understanding is transformed, has been investigated extensively since the 1970s. The field has now grown into a m...

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in ...

Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on t...

New York Times Bestseller! Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and i...

Moral Inferences is the first volume to thoroughly explore the relationship between morality and reasoning. Drawing on the expertise of world-leadi...

Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and nav...