Child development: myths and misunderstandings

Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of...

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1. Verfasser: Mercer, Jean (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Thousand Oaks, California SAGE Publications 2013
Ausgabe:Second edition
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Zusammenfassung:Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts
Beschreibung:Previous edition: 2010
Beschreibung:xiii, 334 pages
ISBN:9781452275529