BUNDLE: Levine, Child Development + Mercer, Child Development - Softcover
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Child Development: An Active Learning Approach
Within each chapter of this innovative topical text, the authors engage students by demonstrating the wide range of real-world applications of psychological research connected to child development. In particular, the distinctive Active Learning features incorporated throughout the book foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students.
In Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, author Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 51 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book is organized so that essays can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts.
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About the Author:
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Laura E. Levine received her PhD in developmental and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. After working with children and families at the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital and in private practice in Ann Arbor for 10 years, she moved to Connecticut and was a stay-at-home mother of her two children for 6 years. She returned to academia in 1994 and taught child psychology and life span development for 20 years at Central Connecticut State University, where she is currently a professor emerita of the Department of Psychological Science. She has received three university teaching awards, and her research on the social development of young children and on the relation between media use and attention difficulties has appeared in journals such as Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Infant Mental Health Journal, Infant and Child Development, Computers and Education, and CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Dr. Levine has been very active in promoting excellence in college teaching. She was involved in the creation of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Central Connecticut State University and served on the board of the Connecticut Consortium to Enhance Learning and Teaching. She created numerous programs for faculty both at her university and at regional and national conferences. Her work on the scholarship of teaching and learning can be found in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, College Teaching and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
"Levine and Munsch have made an excellent contribution to the texts available to those of us who teach child and adolescent development – both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I was excited to use the text when I reviewed it for potential adoption, and after this second review, I am even more excited. I do not see any key weaknesses but do see the many strengths..."
―Charles Dickel, Creighton University
(Charles Dickel 2013-06-28)
"The book is great! I would recommend it to anyone teaching a course in Child and Adolescent Development."
―Dan Nyaronga, SUNY Empire State College-Saratoga
(Dan Nyaronga 2013-06-28)
"I really like this book. I love all of the resources, the book itself is clear and provides a lot of information, and I will definitely adopt it again."
―Kelly Cotter, California State University-Sacramento
(Kelly Cotter 2013-06-28)
"The strengths of this text are the topics presented..., the reading level of the text, the resources in the chapters, pictures, charts, Active Learning, Research, etc. I would adopt the [second] edition of the text for all of the above."
―Sharon Carter, Davidson County Community College-Lexington
(Sharon Carter 2013-06-28)
"This is an extremely well written text. The authors can be commended for the depth and scope of the content . . . easily accessible to students."
―Dawn Witt, California State University-Channel Islands
(Dawn Witt 2013-06-28)
"My overall assessment of this text book is that it is well done...it engages the students in the material but [is] also very cost effective. I especially enjoyed how thorough the book was but that it was not too research focused or boring to the reader. In addition, having access to the Extended Journey in Research and SAGE [journal] articles is a major strength."
―Nicole Surething, Christopher Newport University
(Nicole Surething 2013-06-28)
"In their preface, authors Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch emphasize the need for a child development book that enables students to create meaningful learning experiences. This text has succeeded in achieving their goal."
"The many strengths of this text attest to the success of Levine and Munsch in creating a comprehensive and well-written overview of child development."
―Dalia Gefen, Iona College (Dalia Gefen Psychology Learning and Teaching)
―Charles Dickel, Creighton University
(Charles Dickel 2013-06-28)
"The book is great! I would recommend it to anyone teaching a course in Child and Adolescent Development."
―Dan Nyaronga, SUNY Empire State College-Saratoga
(Dan Nyaronga 2013-06-28)
"I really like this book. I love all of the resources, the book itself is clear and provides a lot of information, and I will definitely adopt it again."
―Kelly Cotter, California State University-Sacramento
(Kelly Cotter 2013-06-28)
"The strengths of this text are the topics presented..., the reading level of the text, the resources in the chapters, pictures, charts, Active Learning, Research, etc. I would adopt the [second] edition of the text for all of the above."
―Sharon Carter, Davidson County Community College-Lexington
(Sharon Carter 2013-06-28)
"This is an extremely well written text. The authors can be commended for the depth and scope of the content . . . easily accessible to students."
―Dawn Witt, California State University-Channel Islands
(Dawn Witt 2013-06-28)
"My overall assessment of this text book is that it is well done...it engages the students in the material but [is] also very cost effective. I especially enjoyed how thorough the book was but that it was not too research focused or boring to the reader. In addition, having access to the Extended Journey in Research and SAGE [journal] articles is a major strength."
―Nicole Surething, Christopher Newport University
(Nicole Surething 2013-06-28)
"In their preface, authors Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch emphasize the need for a child development book that enables students to create meaningful learning experiences. This text has succeeded in achieving their goal."
"The many strengths of this text attest to the success of Levine and Munsch in creating a comprehensive and well-written overview of child development."
―Dalia Gefen, Iona College (Dalia Gefen Psychology Learning and Teaching)
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- PublisherSAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1452206074
- ISBN 13 9781452206073
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages575
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