Child Development

Take a global tour of childhood that spans 50 countries and explore everyday questions such as 'Why does love matter?', 'How do children learn right from wrong'? and 'Why do adolescent relationships feel like a matter of life and death?' Combining psychology, anthropology, and evolution, you will learn about topics such as language, morality, empathy, creativity, learning and cooperation. Discover how children's skills develop, how they adapt to solve challenges, and what makes you, you. Divided into three chronological sections – early years, middle childhood, and adolescence – this book is enriched with a full set of pedagogical features, including key points to help you retain the main takeaway of each section, space for recap, a glossary of key terms, learning outcomes and chapter summaries. Embedded videos and animations throughout bring ideas to life and explain the methods researchers use to reveal the secrets of child development.

• Accessible language and engaging writing style make the concepts easy to understand for students with little or no prior knowledge of child development
• Chapters are framed around everyday questions that reflect what draws people to child development and provide a clear 'way in' to the material
• Contains a vibrant blend of multimedia, including QR codes that link to short video clips, bringing the material to life, high-quality illustrations, and in-text bullet points of essential takeaway messages to help readers stay engaged and focused