Child Development
2nd Edition
1260884775
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9781260884777
© 2022 | Published: January 25, 2022
The Second Canadian edition of Santrock Child Development is topically organized, appropriate for a one-semester course, and designed to engage students. This is achieved by delivering content that is diverse, inclusive, and uniquely Canadian. Divers…
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SECTION 1 THE STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
1. Introduction
SECTION 2 BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
2. Biological Beginnings and Prenatal Development
3. Birth, Physical Development, and Health
SECTION 3 COGNITION, PERCEPTUAL DEVEOPMENT, AND LANGUAGE
4. Cognitive Developmental Approaches
5. Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
6. Information Processing
7. Intelligence
8. Language Development
SECTION 4 SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
9. Emotional Development
10. The Self and Identity
11. Gender
12. Moral Development
SECTION 5 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT
13. Families, Peers, and Schools
14. Culture, Diversity, and Mental Health
1. Introduction
SECTION 2 BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
2. Biological Beginnings and Prenatal Development
3. Birth, Physical Development, and Health
SECTION 3 COGNITION, PERCEPTUAL DEVEOPMENT, AND LANGUAGE
4. Cognitive Developmental Approaches
5. Motor, Sensory, and Perceptual Development
6. Information Processing
7. Intelligence
8. Language Development
SECTION 4 SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
9. Emotional Development
10. The Self and Identity
11. Gender
12. Moral Development
SECTION 5 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT
13. Families, Peers, and Schools
14. Culture, Diversity, and Mental Health
The Second Canadian edition of Santrock Child Development is topically organized, appropriate for a one-semester course, and designed to engage students. This is achieved by delivering content that is diverse, inclusive, and uniquely Canadian. Diversity and inclusion are core to the new Second Canadian Edition, with broader perspectives integrated throughout. Care was taken to ensure the latest Canadian research, statistics and examples are included. This thoughtful Canadian presence allows students to engage and relate to material in the context of child development that's relevant and current. Also new to this edition is an increased focus on mental health, as well as a gentle introduction to neuroscience.
The Second Canadian edition of Santrock is available in Connect. Connect is an award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.
The Second Canadian edition of Santrock is available in Connect. Connect is an award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.
Expanded Canadian Content and Current Research. The new Canadian edition focuses on expanding the Canadian context in child development through new research and content. Updated Canadian research, statistics, and considerations are weaved throughout the entire resource. Examples include a highlight on Cindy Blackstock, Canada’s foremost Indigenous children’s rights advocate, Canadian sleep recommendations for school-age children and adolescents, and many more
Diversity and Inclusion. Diversity and inclusivity are core to the new Second Canadian Edition. This resource has involved leading experts on diversity to ensure that it provides students with current, accurate, and sensitive information related to diversity in children’s development. Diversity is discussed throughout this edition, and Chapter 14 includes extensive material on the subject with substantial research updates. In addition, Connecting Through Diversity features focus on a diversity topic related to the material at that point in the chapter. Topics range from "The Increased Diversity of Adopted Children and Adoptive Parents" to "Cultural Variations in Guiding Infants' Motor Development" to "The Contexts of Ethnic Identity Development."
Readability. With increased Canadian content and an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, the Second Canadian Edition is approachable and engaging for students.
Concise Coverage. The Second Canadian edition offers a more concise look at child development. Now offering 14 chapters, the new edition provides greater flexibility and the ability to cover the fundamentals in one semester.
Neuroscience Coverage. A gentle introduction to Neuroscience has been incorporated throughout the new edition. Neuroscience coverage is featured throughout with a focus on approachability to make the content easy-to-digest.
Expanded Mental Health and Wellness Coverage. Expanded coverage on mental health and wellness are featured in the Second Canadian edition. This includes new Canadian research on the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and family mental health and well-being.
Connect with SmartBook 2.0. The Second Canadian Edition of Child Development is available in Connect. Connect is McGraw Hill’s award-winning digital teaching and learning solution designed to enhance your teaching style. It allows you to deliver, personalize and measure your course with ease. Plus, Connect can integrate with your LMS system to provide a seamless experience for you and your students.?Within Connect, students have access to a variety of learning tools, including?SmartBook. SmartBook is an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalizes content to each student’s unique needs
Quest: Journey Through the Lifespan. Included within Connect, Quest is a unique and engaging learning game that provides students with opportunities to apply content from their child development curriculum to real-life scenarios.
Writing?Assignments.?The Writing Assignment tool delivers a learning experience to help students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently and effectively.?
Application-Based Activities. Within Connect, Application-Based Activities are highly interactive and automatically graded application and analysis-based exercises wherein students immerse themselves in a clinical environment, analyze the situation, and apply their knowledge of clinical strategies. McGraw Hill's ground-breaking longitudinal Milestones video series provides the content for these immersive activities. The Milestones video series tracks the development of real children as they progress through the early stages of physical, social, and emotional development in their first few weeks, months, and years of life.
Power of Process. Available within Connect, Power of Process for Child Development helps students improve critical-thinking skills and allows instructors to assess these skills efficiently and effectively in an online environment. Available through Connect, preloaded journal articles are available for instructors to assign. Using a scaffolded framework such as understanding, synthesizing, and analyzing, Power of Process moves students toward higher-level thinking and analysis.
Writing?Assignments. The Writing Assignment tool within Connect delivers a learning experience to help students improve their written communication skills and conceptual understanding. As an instructor you can assign, monitor, grade, and provide feedback on writing more efficiently and effectively.?
ReadAnywhere App. Our free?ReadAnywhere?App allows students to access?SmartBook?readings and assignments anywhere, anytime,?online?or offline so they never lose their place. With over 500,000 downloads and an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 in the App Store, you can trust that accessing readings, highlights, and notes across all smart devices has never been easier.?
Topical Organization. Santrock Child Development is topically organized. Some of the topics/chapters that are covered include Intelligence, The Self and Identity, and Culture, Diversity and Mental Health.
Learning Goals System. The Learning Goals system in Child Development provides extensive learning connections throughout the chapters. The learning system connects the chapter-opening outline, learning goals for the chapter, mini-chapter outlines that open each main section of the chapter, Review, Connect, and Reflect at the end of each main section, and the chapter summary at the end of each chapter.
Canadian Content. Canadian content and examples are included throughout the Canadian edition of Santrock Child Development to add relevancy to the content.
Diversity and Inclusion. Diversity and inclusivity are core to the Second Canadian Edition, with diverse perspectives integrated throughout every chapter.
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