Revel Access Code for Dynamic Child, The

Frank Manis (Autor)

Freischaltcode

9998 Seiten

2019 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Hersteller)
978-0-13-489739-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Revel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — for less than the cost of a traditional textbook.

Frank Manis, author and creator of MyVirtualChild, applies the principles of anchored instruction to combine his best-selling technology for child development courses with a compelling, original narrative. By enabling students to make virtual parenting decisions as they engage with developmental systems theories and interactive media, Revel The Dynamic Child makes contemporary child development research and theory both comprehensible and deeply meaningful to students. Fully digital and highly engaging, the 2nd Edition offers more thoroughly integrated interactive features as well as a New and Noteworthy feature that will be updated twice yearly with the latest research to keep the learning experience up-to-date.

Autor

About our authors Professor Frank Manis received his BA from Pomona College in 1975 and PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1981. He is a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Southern California, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental psychology and literacy development for 38 years. He has published about 70 articles and book chapters on child development, reading disabilities, development of literacy in both the primary and secondary language, and cognitive functioning in special populations of children. Much of this work was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The major focus of his research has been on the identification of cognitive processes underlying differences in reading skills among children with reading disabilities. Frank reviews for several journals in the field, including Scientific Studies of Reading, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and Developmental Psychology, and was editor of Scientific Studies of Reading for 6 years. He is also the co-author of MyVirtualChild (with Mike Radford) and MyVirtualLife (with Janine Buckner) and author of MyVirtualTeen, interactive websites for simulating the process of child, adolescent and adult development. Frank was a member of the University of Southern California’s Center for Excellence in Teaching from 2006 to 2009, was a Dornsife Distinguished Faculty Fellow from 2011 to 2013, and received teaching, research and service awards at his university in 2004 and 2012.

Inhalt

1. The Study of Child and Adolescent Development
2. Heredity and Environment
3. Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
4. Physical Development and Health in Infants and Toddlers
5. Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
6. Social and Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers
7. Physical Development and Health in Early Childhood
8. Cognitive and Language Development in Early Childhood
9. Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood
10. Physical Development and Health in Middle Childhood
11. Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
12. Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
13. Physical Development and Health in Adolescence
14. Cognitive Development in Adolescence
15. Social and Emotional Development in Adolescence

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-13-489739-0 / 0134897390
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-489739-4 / 9780134897394
• Zustand: Neuware