This fully revised and updated edition of a fundamental New Zealand psychology text
examines how and why children develop and how they are influenced by the people and …

Child Development and Education is a comprehensive child development text written
especially for educators. It helps students to translate developmental theories into practical …

Emphasising the voices and rights of children, international expert Anne Smith examines the
latest thinking on children's learning and development. Contemporary theories and research …

Child, Adolescent and Family Development is a comprehensive study of human
development in the context of the family. Incorporating the latest Australian, British and …

Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology
in childhood. Drawing on content which first appeared in 'Understanding Child …

Understanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology
textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and rigorous …

The young people who are the subject of the National Child Development Study are now
aged 25. For most of their lives they have been monitored by the National Children's Bureau …

The Starting School Research Project, based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia,
promotes the involvement of children in research concerning their transition to school. Using …

This is a particularly exciting time to be writing this book. To begin with, and perhaps most
fundamentally, it is an exciting time to be involved in early years education. For many years …

The longitudinal New Zealand project" Competent Children" has two objectives: to describe
and analyze variations and changes in children's cognitive, social, communicative and …