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This volume brings together leading authorities to report on current findings, integrate insights from different disciplinary perspectives and explore ways to provide children with the strongest possible literacy foundations in the first six years of life.
Comprehensive and authoritative, this forward-thinking book reviews the breadth of current knowledge about early education and identifies important priorities for practice and policy. Robert C. Pianta and his associates bring together foremost experts to examine what works in promoting all children's school readiness and social-emotional ......
Comprehensive and authoritative, this forward-thinking book reviews the breadth of current knowledge about early education and identifies important priorities for practice and policy. Robert C. Pianta and his associates bring together foremost experts to examine what works in promoting all children's school readiness and social-emotional ......
Developmental systems theory provides powerful tools for predicting complex, dynamic interactions among biological and environmental processes in human behavior and health. This groundbreaking handbook provides a roadmap for integrating key concepts of developmental systems theory (such as self-organization, reciprocal dynamic interaction, and ......
There has been an explosion of research into the physiological and neural bases of social behavior over the years. This book approaches the topic from a developmental perspective.
Appropriate for use in developmental research methods or analysis of change courses, this is the first methods handbook specifically designed to meet the needs of those studying development. Leading developmental methodologists present cutting-edge analytic tools and describe how and when to use them in accessible, nontechnical language. They also ......
This is the first methods handbook specifically designed to meet the needs of today's developmental scholars. Leading developmental methodologists describe cutting-edge approaches to measurement and design, data collection, and interindividual and intraindividual longitudinal analysis. For each method or analytic tool -- whether created to measure ......
Reviews the knowledge about developmental disabilities: neuroscientific and genetic foundations; the impact on health, learning, and behavior; and, effective educational and clinical practices. This handbook analyzes what works in intervening with diverse children and families, from infancy through the school years and the transition to adulthood.
Analyzes what works in intervening with diverse children and families, from infancy through the school years and the transition to adulthood. This book reviews knowledge about developmental disabilities such as: neuroscientific and genetic foundations; the impact on health, learning, and behavior; and, effective educational and clinical practices.
