World of Children, The, 3rd edition

Helping students make connections between science and practice

The World of Children helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. The third edition features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges. It encourages readers to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives. The World of Children is a chronological child development text.

MyDevelopmentLab is available with World of Children, 3e. Through MyDevelopmentLab, students have access to MyVirtualChild, an interactive web-based simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time. 

A better teaching and learning experience

The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to:

• Personalize Learning— The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructions achieve their goals.
• Improve Critical Thinking—Prompts throughout each chapter jumpstart readers’ critical thinking process.
• Engage Students— Real-life cases encourage students apply what they are learning. Also, students can raise a child throught MyVirtualChild.
• Explore Research— With over 600 new research citations, this new edition reflects the latest research in the field of child psychology.
• Understand Different Perspectives– Several perspectives are included in the reading to help students think about the content from different points of view.
• Support Instructors— New MyDevelopmentLab Video Series.  These cross-cultural videos feature original footage filmed in the United States, Mexico, and Botswana.  Guided by series editor Ashley Maynard (University of Hawaii, Manoa), they show how culture impacts child development.  Videos are available in multiple formats:  on an instructor’s DVD, tied to quizzes in MyDevelomentLab, and called out in the chapter with “Watch” icons. 

• In addition to training and research, Cook and Cook incorporate writing from their own experiences, bridging the gab between textbook learning and practice.
• A Learning Objectives Pathway helps guide students throughout the chapter.
• • Learning Objective questions at the start of each major section help students preview the important concepts they are about to study. NEW for this edition, the Learning Objectives are organised using Bloom’s taxonomy to guide students toward higher-level learning with four level of increasing difficulty:  know, understand, apply, and think critically. 
  • Let’s Review questions at the end of each sections assists students in mastering the material.  NEW for this edition:  the questions are now organised using the same levels of increasing difficulty as the learning objectives to guide students toward higher-level learning:  know, understand, apply, and think critically.  Answers accompany the questions, printed upside down.
  • Chapter Review reminds readers of the main questions addressed in the chapter and gives a quick review of the most important concepts.
  • A revisiting themes section included in the chapter review recaps where the four new research themes is found in each chapter.
• Think About margin questions are placed at critical points throughout the chapter andask students how they might advise the characters described in the opening story of each chapter based on what they have learned so far.
• Thinking Back sections at the end of each chapter summarise some of the possibilities for how students could have answered the margin questions.
• Thinking Critically notes in the margins encourage students to think about how the chapter material relates to their own life. 

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Practical Applications throughout the text help answer many of students’ questions. The authors demonstrate the practical applications of child development through interviews with professionals and families, illuminating how they use child development information every day. 
• Professional Perspective boxes show students how a real professional uses child development information in practice. Each box explores a different career, introducing students to different career paths.
• Personal Perspective boxes allow students to connect with the personal feelings of an actual parent, child, or adolescent who is experiencing an issue.
• Social Policy Perspectives boxes spotlight the ways programs, laws, regulations, and other governing aspects of society can affect children These boxes gives students an understanding of how work in the field of child development can inform government officials, community service agencies, and other who have wide-ranging effects on the lives of children.

EXPLORE RESEARCH

• Current research is presented throughout the text.  With over 600 new research citations in this new edition, each chapter is thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research in the field of child psychology.
• The authors put special emphasis on the great advances being made in ne

Found in this Section:

1. Overview of Changes

1. Overview of changes

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYDEVELOPMENTLAB

• New cross-cultural videos in MyDevelopmentLab.  Original footage filmed in the United States, Mexico, and Botswana, and guided by series editor Ashley Maynard (University of Hawaii, Manoa), show how culture impacts child development.  Videos are available in multiple formats:  on an instructor’s DVD, tied to quizzes in MyDevelomentLab, and called out in the chapter with “Watch” icons. 

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• New pedagogy designed to help students improve their critical thinking skills.  The Learning Objectives that begin each major section of a chapter are now organized using an updated Bloom’s taxonomy designed to guide students toward higher-level learning with four level of increasing difficulty:  know, understand, apply, and think critically. 
• Let’s Review questions at the end of each section are now also organized using the same levels of increasing difficulty to guide students toward higher-level learning:  know, understand, apply, and think critically. 

EXPLORE RESEARCH

• Current research.  With over 600 new research citations in this new edition, each chapter is thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research in the field of child psychology.
• The authors put special emphasis on the great advances being made in neuroscience research and the effect on the field.