BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development, 2e + Mercer: Child Development, 2e by Laura E. Levine

by Laura E. Levine

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students.Child An Active Learning ApproachWithin each chapter of this innovative topical text, the authors engage students by demonstrating the wide range of real-world applications of psychological research connected to child development. In particular, the distinctive Active Learning features incorporated throughout the book foster a dynamic and personal learning process for students.In Child Myths and Misunderstandings, author Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 51 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 is organized so that essays can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts.

Hardcover

First published June 30, 2011