Connecting with today's students To help students learn about child development more effectively
Connecting research to what we know about children's development To provide students with the best and most recent theory and research in the world today about each of the periods of child development
Connecting developmental processes To guide students in making developmental connections across different points in child development
Connecting development to real life To help students understand ways to apply content about child development to the real world and improve people's lives, and to motivate students to think deeply about their own personal journey through life and better understand who they were, are, and will be
Developmental Connections, questions, and cross references emphasize the interconnectedness of child development, both topically and chronologically.
Connections Through Research help students understand how research informs what we know about development by describing a research study, its methods, and results.
Connecting With Diversity shows the important connections among the concepts discussed and the real world. This text has benefited from the involvement of one or more leading experts on diversity to ensure that it provides students with current, accurate, sensitive information related to diversity in children's development.
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