Infant Development: The Essential Readings

Resource Type

Book - Parent

Description

"Discoveries by researchers into infant development are some of the most exciting and important to be found in the study of human development, and they have been the subject on intense speculation and theorizing. Despite the fact that, as adults, we can remember little about the times and places when we acquired knowledge in infancy, that information does remain with us for the rest of our lives. Infant Development: The Essential Readings introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area. Each of the articles within the reader has been chosen to reflect the dynamic, changing nature of the subject and the diversity of research and thinking within the are of infant development..." [--from amazon.com]

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3)

Languages

English

ISBN

0631217479

Authors

Darwin Muir , Alan Slater

Publication

2000 Blackwell Publishers

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