The Young Child: Development from Prebirth Through Age Eight

Optimal child development depends on educators as much as on parents and caregivers. Based on this idea, this widely used text offers prospective teachers of children from birth through age eight a knowledge base of current theory and research in the field of early growth, development, and learning. The authors couple discussion of major developmental theories as they relate to physical, psychosocial, and cognitive domains with the extensive applications information necessary to translate theory into caring practice in the daily lives of the young children their readers will teach.