A Child's World: Infancy Through Adolescence, 12/e
Diane E Papalia Ruth Duskin Feldman
ISBN: 0073532045 Copyright year: 2011
New to this Edition
Chapter 1, Studying A Child's World, now includes a new box on immigrant families, new examples of childhood as a social construction, and updated statistics on poverty and ethnicity.
Updated information on ART, epigenesis, Down syndrome, schizophrenia, multiple births, and genetic testing emphasizes the importance of heredity and the environment in a child's life.
Information on birth and newborn babies now features coverage of childbirth settings, doulas, and C-sections updated as well as information on VBACs, Apgar, and low birth weight, along with updated statistics on prematurity and stillbirths.
Updated consideration of psychosocial development during the first three years includes new material on infant smiling, mirror neurons, the neural base of attachment, altruism/altruistic behavior and self-regulation, disorganized attachment pattern and maternal employment/child care, along with a new section on shared intentionality/collaborative activity.
Significantly revised early education material features expanded coverage of Montessori, Reggio Emilia, theory of mind, and late-talking toddlers, as well as a new section on the School of the 21st Century and universal preschool.
A new feature, Did You Know . . . ?, introduces each chapter by highlighting interesting and enlightening findings mentioned in the chapter.
Updated boxed features--including The Research World, The Everyday World, and Around the World boxes--support the learning process while highlighting such issues of interest to students as Family Mealtimes, Food Security, Multitasking and Gen M, Children of Immigrant Families, and Inventing Sign Language.
An updated Online Learning Center offers a wealth of additional teaching and learning resources. Student material includes chapter outlines, a Key Terms glossary, Guideposts for Study, multiple-choice quizzes, matching quizzes, and decision-making scenarios, which afford students the opportunity to apply the material learned in the chapter to realistic situations and to ¬observe what effects their decisions have. Instructor resources include an Instructor's Manual, test bank files, PowerPoint slides, and other valuable material.
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This convenient guide matches the units in Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 11/12 with the corresponding chapters in three of our best-selling McGraw-Hill Child Development textbooks by Santrock and Papalia et al.
2011