Understanding Human Development
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Understanding Human Development by Grace J Craig
An interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on culture and family Understanding Human Development challenges students to examine development from a broader perspective. Students draw on their own experiences as they weigh the research and ideas presented in the text. This brief text is ideal for undergraduate courses in Lifespan Development and Human Development. MyDevelopmentLab is an integral part of the Craig/Dunn program. Key learning applications include a personalized study plan, MyDevelopmentLab Video Series, and MyVirtualLife. A better teaching and learning experience The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to:- Personalize Learning - MyDevelopmentLab is online learning. MyDevelopmentLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors from course preparation to delivery and assessment.
- Improve Critical Thinking -- Critical thinking questions throughout encourage students to consider the relevance of developmental concepts and events in the context of their own lives.
- Engage Students -- Try This give students an opportunity to challenge and extend their own thinking and expertise in the field of human development.
- Explore Research -- Strong focus on the most recent and relevant research.
- Understand Culture and Diversity-- Changing Perspectives features explore controversies about human development, often within a specific cultural context, and encourages thought and discussion.
- Support Instructors -- A complete package of instructors resources is available and the plan for these resources was carefully developed by the text authors to ensure the quality and coverage perfectly matches the content and focus of the text.
Wendy L. Dunn is the James Y. Canfield Professor of Psychology at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A first-generation college student who grew up on a farm in Iowa, Wendy earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from Iowa State University; she holds two PhDs, both from the University of Iowa. Although she has assumed a variety of administrative appointments during her academic career, including serving for a time as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty and currently as Executive Director of Planning, Wendy takes the greatest pleasure in teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. She is the recipient of the C. J. Lynch Outstanding Teacher award at Coe College. Wendy's research centers on human learning and decision making. She has long been interested in how students learn and has written a wide variety of instructor's manuals and student study guides to accompany many well-known psychology books. She is a co-author of two Introductory Psychology texts: Psychology: A Concise Introduction, with Lyle Bourne and Bruce Ekstand, and Psychology: Concepts and Applications, with Charles Morris and Al Maisto. Her partnership with Grace Craig through four editions of Understanding Human Development has been an especially rich collaboration. Outside of her academic career, Wendy has been an active community volunteer, serving in leadership roles on boards for the Metropolitan YMCA, the United Way, Orchestra Iowa, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and Brucemore, Inc., a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wendy has been happily married to Greg Dunn for more than 40 years; together they have a son, Bobby; a daughter, Whitney; a son-in-law, Eliot; and a two-year old grandson, Jake. Wendy believes that the study of human development comes alive when contextualized through the events of one's own life and that her experiences as daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother have contributed a rich and valuable perspective to how she views the unfolding of life's story. Grace J. Craig is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she taught for more than 40 years after teaching for 4 years at Smith College. She taught a variety of courses throughout her career, including child psychology, early childhood education, special education, lifespan development, and child development. She has been an associate dean, acting dean, and, intermittently, the head of the Departments of Human Development, Student and Personnel Development, and Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies before her retirement in 2012. Grace's focus throughout her career was always on helping students, through teaching, advising, and guiding them in their research. She has done research on child and family studies, lifespan development, and early childhood education, but she prefers working with students. Grace earned her undergraduate degree in sociology and anthropology, and her master's degree and PhD in psychology, from the University of Massachusetts. She was a school psychologist for a few years while her daughter was young. She also supervised facilities such as a day-care center, a center for children with special needs, and preschools. Throughout her career, she has authored and co-authored several textbooks, including H uman Development, now in its ninth edition; Children Today; and Human Development: A Social Work Perspective. Now retired, Grace enjoys birding. Her husband, Ralph, taught in Massachusetts public schools before his death in 2015. Her daughter, Talli McCormick, is a nurse practitioner who currently teaches Nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Allied Health Professionals. Her grandson, Edward McCormick, is earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780205233878 |
| ISBN 10 | 0205233872 |
| Titel | Understanding Human Development |
| Autor | Grace J Craig |
| Serie | Books A La Carte |
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| Verlag | Pearson |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-12-07 |
| Seitenanzahl | 624 |
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