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This course explores the principles and theories of normal child growth and development from birth through adolescence, focusing on school age children. The course will focus on the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of development and their applications in the school settings. Also discussed are the external factors from family, peers, culture and society that shape child and adolescent development and their learning in schools.
This book prepares original, comprehensive, and topical treatments of the major areas of developmental science. It furnishes inclusive developmental perspectives on all substantive areas in psychology—neuroscience, perception, cognition, language, emotion, and social interaction. Part One summarizes the intellectual history of developmental science, reviews the cultural orientation to thinking about human development, and introduces the manner in which empirical research on development is conducted. Part Two shifts to substantive issues of developmental science, especially for neuroscience, perceptual, cognitive, and language development. Part Three examines personality and social development in the context of the various relationships and situations in which developing individuals function and by which they are shaped.
This handbook is concerned with theory and research on human development into cultural beings, with its focus on cultural change, migration, and globalization. There is also a focus on a variety of developmental contexts such as family, school, work, media, community and civic realms, and religion. The handbook showcases the interdisciplinary "cultural-developmental" approach to scholarship that bridges universal and cultural perspectives on human development, covering the entire life course from the prenatal period and birth to old age and death. The topics covered include cognitive, emotional, physical, and social development.
