Child Development: Its Nature and Course

by Robert G. Cooper, L. Alan Sroufe, Ganie B. DeHart

Book Overview

This work for a chronologically organized child development course provides an introduction to the study of the topic, its theories, its themes, and its contexts. It features up-to-date research and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070605807
• ISBN13: 9780070605800
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Child Development Textbook of top calibur

I felt the need to submit a review on this textbook, since the other reviews I read on the text not only didn't do justice, but didn't seem to have much thought and consideration put into them. Perhaps the reviewers with poor opinions on the text were using the book for a course they didn't care much for, and were taking merely to fulfill a general education requirement. In classes where instructors know most of the students are taking the course merely to fulfill a blank slot on their transcript, a more elementary and less expensive text could be considered. So, I would call that poor thinking on the school or professor's part. *I* took the Child Development course which I did, not only to fulfill some credits I still needed, but because I'm very interested in the subject as well as a degree in child developmental psychology or other psychology related degree. I didn't find the text to be in the least bit dry. I thought it was extremely well thought out and put together. This was one of the very few textbooks I actually read cover to cover during my 5 years of college. I even read a few chapters at the end that our class didn't have time to cover, purely for interest's sake. I go back to this book again and again. I have let friends with young children borrow the book after having highlighted sections for them to read which I thought would be helpful in their everyday understanding of their own children. This book will stay on my shelf until it is completely outdated, and will be reviewed and looked at again often. It is invaluable to me.

Dry but informative.

This book follows hypothetical situations of 4 kids, the writer's aging them as the chapters go thru developmental ages. The box has very good information, but is hard to read and a bit dry. I did learn a lot from the book, which is the purpose and would recommend it to others.