Child development : myths and misunderstandings /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mercer, Jean (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Item Description:Previous edition: 2010.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452275529 (ebook) :