Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications

ISBN-10: 0139554025
ISBN-13: 9780139554025
Series: Theories of Development
Pages: 420
Language: English
Published: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author: William C. Crain

Description

For courses in Theories of Development at the undergraduate or graduate level. As a supplement to Child/Life Span/Adolescent Development courses or for any course where instructors need additional coverage of developmental theories.

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, written in an engaging narrative for undergraduates and graduates alike, this text introduces students to twenty-four different theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that follow and build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.