Readings on the Development of Children

by Gauvain, Mary; Cole, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780716709619
• ISBN10: 0716709619
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

Readings on the Development of Childrenis an excellent supplement in a development course, or as the primary text in graduate-level seminars. The new edition offers 37 readings, 21 new to this edition. The new articles were chosen to expose readers to recent research in rapidly changing areas of the field, such as brain development, early concepts, socioemotional development, and adolescent well-being. Each article is now followed by 10 thought-provoking review questions.

Table of Contents

An asterisk (*) indicates selections that are new to the Fourth Edition

Introduction      
1. Ecological Models of Human Development, Urie Bronfenbrenner
2. *Development and Learning, Jean Piaget
3. Interaction Between Learning and Development, Lev S. Vygotsky
4. *The Legacy of Early Attachments, Ross A. Thompson
5. Children of the Garden Island, Emmy E. Werner
    
Part I: In the Beginning    
6. *Brain Development in Early Childhood, Neal Halfon, Ericka Shulman, and Miles Hochstein
7. *Optimizing Expression of the Common Human Genome for Child Development, Bernard Brown
8. Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer Their Mothers’ Voices, Anthony J. DeCasper and William P. Fifer
9. *Culture and Early Infancy Among Central African Foragers and Farmers,
Barry S. Hewlett, Michael E. Lamb, Donald Shannon, Birgit Leyendecker, and Axel Scholmerich
10. Temperament and the Reactions to Unfamiliarity, Jerome Kagan
    
Part II: Infancy
11. Early Rule Structure: The Case of "Peekaboo," Jerome S. Bruner and V. Sherwood
12. *Infants Use Handrails as Tools in a Locomotor Task, Sarah E. Berger and Karen E. Adolph
13. Becoming a Native Listener, Janet F. Werker
14. *Is Face Processing Species-specific During the First Year of Life?, Olivier Pascalis, Michelle de Haan, and Charles A. Nelson
15. *Event Categorization in Infancy, Renee Baillargeon and Su-Hua Wang
16. Early Experience and Emotional Development: The Emergence of Wariness of Heights, Joseph J. Campos, Bennett I. Bertenthal, and Rosanne Kermoian
17. *Specificity and Heterogeneity in Children’s Responses to Profound Institutional Privation, Michael L. Rutter, Jana M. Kreppner, and Thomas G. O’Connor 
    
Part III: Early Childhood
18. The Credible Shrinking Room: Very Young Children’s Performance with Symbolic and Non-symbolic Relations, Judy S. DeLoache, Kevin F. Miller, and Karl S. Rosengren
19. *Personal Storytelling as a Medium of Socialization in Chinese and American Families, Peggy J. Miller, Angela R. Wiley, Heidi Fung, and Chung-Hui Liang
20. *Developing a Cultural Theory of Mind: The CIAO Approach, Angeline Lillard
21. *Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models, Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, and Sheila A. Ross
22. Cultural Differences in American and Mexican Mother-Child Pretend Play, JoAnn M. Farver and Carollee Howes
23. *Gender and Group Process: A Developmental Perspective, Eleanor Maccoby
24. *Does Quality of Child Care Affect Child Outcomes at Age 4-1/2?  NICHD Early Child Care Research Network
    
Part IV: Middle Childhood
25. Cognitive Variability: A Key to Understanding Cognitive Development, Robert S. Siegler
26. The Role of Age versus Expertise in Peer Collaboration during Joint Planning, Ruth T. Duran and Mary Gauvain
27. *Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment, Nicki R. Crick and Jennifer K. Grotpeter
28. How Asian Teachers Polish Each Lesson to Perfection, James W. Stigler and Harold Stevenson
29. *Friendship Quality and Social Development, Thomas J. Berndt
30. *Cultural Teaching: The Development of Teaching Skills in Maya Sibling Interactions, Ashley E. Maynard
31. Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Ulric Neisser, Gwyneth Boodoo, Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., A. Wade Boykin, Nathan Brody, Stephen J. Ceci
    
Part V: Adolescence
32. Adolescent Storm and Stress, Reconsidered, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
33. Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents, Amy R. Wolfsen and Mary A. Carskadon
34. *Development of Logical Reasoning and the School Performance of African American Adolescents in Relation to Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem, Mark S. Chappell and Willis S. Overton
35. *Parental Autonomy Granting during Adolescence: Exploring Gender Differences in Context, Matthew F.  Bumpus, Ann C. Crouter, and Susan M. McHale
36. *Antisocial Boys and Their Friends in Early Adolescence: Relationship Characteristics, Quality, and Interactional Process Thomas A. Dishion, David W. Andrews, and Lynn Crosby 
 37. *What Do Adolescents Need for Healthy Development?, Jodie Roth and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn