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Understanding Child Development, 10th Edition

Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D.

  • Copyright 2017
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UNDERSTANDING CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 10th Edition, introduces pre-service and inservice teachers to the unique qualities of young children from infants to age eight, and demonstrates how to work with each child in ways that correspond with their developmental level, and their social and cultural environment. Now organized into 15 chapters, the book includes learning theories and research as well as information about the importance of play and technology in a young child's learning process. Learning objectives and specific NAEYC Program Standards, Accreditation Criteria, and Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) are highlighted at the beginning of each chapter. Other topics covered include readiness, assessment, working with children and families from diverse cultures, working with children with special needs, and the early stages of reading, writing, and general cognitive development. Throughout the text, real-life examples and anecdotes bring theory and research to life

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Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D.

Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D., was professor emerita and retired department chair in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Dr. Charlesworth’s career in early childhood education included experiences with both typical and non-typical young children in laboratory schools, public schools and day care centers, plus research in social and cognitive development and behavior. Throughout her career, she was known for her contributions to research on early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices.

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  • *NEW* MindTap® Education for UNDERSTANDING CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 10th Edition is a highly personalized, fully customizable learning platform with an integrated e-portfolio. MindTap helps students to elevate their thinking by guiding them to know, remember, and understand concepts critical to becoming a great teacher; apply concepts, create curricula and tools, and demonstrate performance and competency in key areas, including education standards; prepare artifacts for their portfolio and eventual state licensure, to launch a successful teaching career; and develop the habits to become a reflective practitioner.
  • *UPDATED* The 31 smaller units from the previous edition have been combined into six parts and 15 chapters, which are more closely aligned with semester and quarter course schedules.
  • *NEW* All topics, demographic data, and statistics have been updated with the latest research findings. New topics have also been added, including LGBT parenting; the father's role in child care; the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder, food insecurity, and drug abuse; Common Core Standards; zero tolerance; reflective teaching; play in the primary grades; and cyberbullying and anti-bullying programs.
  • *NEW* Students can begin developing or adding to their personal libraries of professional tools for the classroom with new forms, called Professional Resource Downloads. These forms are available as digital downloads with the MindTap® online learning experience available with the text

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  • Features include Brain Development boxes that focus on relevant brain research, Child Development in the Real World boxes that provide practical applications of key topics, Technology in Early Childhood Education features that highlight various issues related to technology in children's education, and brief Time to Reflect features that present scenarios and/or questions to ponder or write about.
  • Content is aligned with NAEYC Program Standards, Accreditation Criteria, and Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) Guidelines, which are highlighted at the beginning of each chapter. A Standards Correlation Chart on the inside front cover provides an easily accessible snapshot of where these standards and guidelines are covered in the text.
  • An integrated learning system features numbered, chapter-opening learning objectives tied to each chapter's main headings, which help to focus students' reading. Each chapter concludes with a chapter summary organized around the learning objectives.
  • Supported by the latest developmental research and theory, the text relates child development to current issues in early childhood and addresses problems and solutions for those who are or will be working with young children.
  • With a focus on the relationship of child development to our diverse, multicultural society, the book provides connections between child development and children's families, communities, schools, and cultures.
  • Content covers development from the prenatal period through age eight, which aligns with the NAEYC definition of early childhood.

Table of Contents

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Part I: OVERVIEW OF THE YOUNG CHILD: BIRTH THROUGH AGE EIGHT.
1. Studying the Young Child.
Part II: LEARNING: BIRTH THROUGH AGE EIGHT.
2. How Play, Technology and Digital Media, and Disabilities Affect Learning.
3. Factors Affecting Learning.
Part III: PRENATAL AND INFANCY PERIODS.
4. Prenatal Period, Birth, and the First Two Weeks.
5. Infancy: Theory, Environment, Health, and Motor Development.
6. Infant Cognitive and Affective Development.
Section IV: THE TODDLER: DEVELOPING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE.
7. The Toddler: Autonomy and Development.
Part V: THE PREKINDERGARTNER/KINDERGARTNER: AGES THREE THROUGH SIX.
8. Physical and Motor Development.
9. The Cognitive System, Concept Development, and Intelligence.
10. Oral and Written Language Development.
11. How Adults Enrich Language and Concept Development.
12. Affective Development.
13. How Adults Support Affective Development.
Part VI: THE PRIMARY CHILD: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGES SIX THROUGH EIGHT.
14. Preschool To Primary: Bridging the Gap into the Primary Grades.
15. Primary Grade Child Development.

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