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Direct linkCrockett, Lisa J., Ed.; Carlo, Gustavo, Ed.; Schulenberg, John E., Ed. – APA Books, 2022
This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the topics that are relevant to the field of adolescent and young adult development. The "APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development" reviews the many factors that impact youth development across varying themes including biological underpinnings, cognitive and emotive processes,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Young Adults, Individual Development, Developmental Psychology
Download full textLengel, James G. – 1974
This paper outlines an evaluation system for elementary education based on cognitive and social development research. Piaget has defined certain core mental structures that develop in all humans in the same order. Both Piaget and Kohlberg have done work on the process of developmental change and the conditions necessary for optimal growth of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Bronfenbrenner, Urie, Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2004
To a greater extent than any other species, human beings create the environments that, in turn, shape their own development. This book endeavors to demonstrate that human beings can also develop those environments to optimize their most constructive genetic potentials. What makes human beings human, therefore, is both the potential to shape their…
Descriptors: Heredity, Social Status, Psychologists, Systems Approach
Brown, Lyn Mikel; Gilligan, Carol – 1992
A study explored girls' development and its implication for the psychology of women. From 1986-1990, nearly 100 girls between the ages of 7 and 18 at the Laurel School for Girls in Cleveland, Ohio, were interviewed. Most of the girls were from middle- or upper-middle-class families (80%), although some were scholarship students from working-class…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education
Scholnick, Ellin K., Ed.; Nelson, Katherine, Ed.; Gelman, Susan A., Ed.; Miller, Patricia H., Ed. – 1999
Based on the papers presented at the 1996 Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society and highlighting the extent to which Piaget's ideas have served to scaffold contemporary thinking about every aspect of conceptual development, this volume examines the nature of conceptual development, its foundations, and the sources of its novelties. The chapters…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Foulkes, David – 1999
Noting that scientific observation of children's dreaming offers unparalleled opportunities to study experience of conscious mental states, this book presents findings from two studies on children's dreaming. Following an argument outlining the problems in equating dreaming with perception, the book explains the use of sleep laboratories and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
Albrecht, Kay; Miller, Linda G. – 2001
This book provides teachers of infants and toddlers with an in-depth guide to infant and toddler development, theories of growth and development, and best practices in early childhood education. The chapters are: (1) "Innovations: Infant and Toddler Development," looking at the underlying principles of developmental and interactional…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Development
