Child development : myths and misunderstandings / Jean Mercer, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Los AngelesThousand Oaks :
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[2013]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 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 can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 148330759X 9781483307596 9781452275529 1452275521 9781483321639 1483321630 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |