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• Cover Page
• Developmental and Educational Psychology for Teachers
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1 Developmental Psychology: Themes And Research
• Introduction
• Studying Development
• Themes in Developmental Psychology
• Psychology and the Scientific Method
• General Principles of Good Research
• Ethics and Research
• Internet Resources
• 2 Heredity and Environment and Special Learning Needs
• Introduction
• Basis of Heredity – A Simplified Overview
• Interactions Between Heredity and Environment
• Prenatal Influences
• Developmental Problems in Childhood and Educational Implications
• Streaming and Ability Grouping
• 3 Physical and Motor Development: Infancy to Late Childhood
• Introduction
• Principles of Development
• Overview of Developmental Stages
• Principles of Motor Development
• Individual Differences in Motor Development
• 4 Physical and Motor Development: Puberty to Adulthood and Developmental Health
• Introduction
• Puberty and Adolescence
• Developmental Trajectories: Early and Late Maturation
• Adolescents and Body Image
• Health Issues and the School Environment
• 5 Cognition and Cognitive Development: Infancy to Late Childhood
• Introduction
• Continuity and Change in Cognitive Development
• Jean Piaget
• Stages of Intellectual Development
• Concrete Operations Stage
• Implications of Piaget for Education
• Lev Vygotsky
• Classroom Applications of Vygotskian Theory
• Jerome Bruner
• Language Development
• 6 Cognitive Development: Adolescence to Adulthood
• Introduction
• Piaget and Adolescent Cognition
• Current Status of Piaget’s Theory
• Further Thoughts On Vygotsky
• Metacognition
• Cognitive and Situated Learning
• 7 Conceptions of Intelligence and Creativity in Childhood and Adolescence
• Introduction
• Psychometrics and Intelligence
• Gardner’s ‘Frames of Mind’
• Multiple Intelligences
• Psychometric Approaches to Cognitive Measurement
• Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
• Creativity
• Personality Characteristics
• 8 Cognition and Information Processing in Childhood and Adolescence
• Introduction
• Information Processing
• Remembering and Forgetting
• Strategies to Help Learning
• Classifying to Help Learning
• Remembering and Forgetting
• How Do Experts Differ from Novices in Information Processing?
• Using The Information Processing Approach in The Classroom
• 9 Personal and Social Development in Childhood
• Introduction
• Sigmund Freud
• Current Status of Freud’s Theory
• Classroom Implications of Freud’s Theory
• Erik Erikson
• Parental and Grandparental Involvement in School
• Humanism and Personal Development
• Carl Rogers
• Abraham Maslow
• Classroom Implications of Humanistic Perspectives
• Social and Emotional Development in Childhood
• Social and Emotional Development
• 10 Personal and Social Development in Adolescence
• Introduction
• Social and Emotional Development, Social Identity, and Adolescence
• Family Relationships, Social Development, and Relationship to Academic Adjustment
• Erikson: Identity Formation
• Erikson: Young Adulthood and Beyond
• Classroom Applications of Erikson’s Theory
• Identity Crisis
• Parental Involvement and Identity Formation
• The Importance of The Peer Group to Adolescents
• Social Development and Alienation
• Adolescent Suicide
• Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, and Effective Learning
• Self-Regulation and Adolescence
• Self-Efficacy and Adolescence
• High School Environments and the Development of Adolescents
• 11 Moral Development in Childhood and Adolescence
• Introduction
• Moral Development
• Jean Piaget’s Stage Theory of Moral Development
• Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stage Theory of Moral Development
• Elliot Turiel’s Domain Theory of Moral Development
• Carol Gilligan and Gender Differences in Moral Development
• Neo-Kohlbergian Approaches to Moral Development
• Classroom Applications of Moral Development Theory
• Nel Noddings and Caring Schools
• Glossary
• References
• Index