John W. Santrock,
University of Texas at Dallas Anne MacKenzie-Rivers,
George Brown College Kwan Ho Leung,
George Brown College Thomas Malcomson,
George Brown College
ISBN: 0070905738 Copyright year: 2003
Feature Summary
New Features :
Uniquely Canadian Content Coverage of Canada's ethnic diversity, family life, educational policies, and health care system, to name just a few topical areas, provides a context for understanding the developing person in Canada.
Students better relate to and engage with material that is germane to their experience.
Commitment to coverage of cultural diversity and the Canadian mosaic.
Each chapter highlights Canadian people, approaches, and experiences, capturing how culture, ethnicity, and gender influence life-span development.
A comprehensive pedagogical system that includes cognitive maps, summary tables, key terms with definitions in the text's margins, cross-linkage icons, and chapter summary materials.
The built-in study aids help students to comprehend, review, and retain the most important facts, theories, and concepts of life-span development.
Inclusion of relevant Canadian Internet connections
Labeled icons in the text's margins signal students to connect to the Online Learning Centre for up-to-the-minute information on selected topics. Taking it to the Net exercises foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Retained Features :
Careers in Life-Span Development boxes, Sociocultural Worlds of Development boxes, and Critical Thinking boxes supplement and enhance chapter content.
These boxes help students to apply life-span development concepts to their own experience as well as to the world at large.
2003