Child Development

Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades takes a chronological approach to conveying the wonder and awe of child development. Children develop in multiple contexts--the intrauterine environment, the birth experience, and the contexts of family, peers, childcare, school, neighborhood, etc.--all of them interrelated and subject to important cultural influences. Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades stands apart in the landscape of child development textbooks in its...
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Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades takes a chronological approach to conveying the wonder and awe of child development. Children develop in multiple contexts--the intrauterine environment, the birth experience, and the contexts of family, peers, childcare, school, neighborhood, etc.--all of them interrelated and subject to important cultural influences. Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades stands apart in the landscape of child development textbooks in its systematic organization around topics at the forefront of developmental science: the roles of context and culture in development and developmental cascades. In addition, this book showcases the critical area of infant language development in a dedicated chapter rather than just including it as a section in the chapter on cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood. Finally, research methods are incorporated into this book's core material, so that students understand how scientists arrive at the conclusions they do.