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This second edition of Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach continues to reflect our primary goal of creating significant learning experiences for students who want to understand children and their development. In this chronologically organized book we provide current evidence-based knowledge about the development of infants, children, and adolescents with the pedagogical goal of helping students understand, retain, explore, and apply that knowledge. A central, organizing feature of this text is the learning activities embedded within each chapter. These activities take a variety of forms so that they stay fresh and interesting to the student and are integrated with the flow of information in the chapter rather than being stand-alone features that are easily skipped or ignored. We also provide opportunities throughout the book for students to learn about how our understanding of child development has evolved through the scientific process to reach our current state of knowledge.

This book can be used effectively by students who want to apply theory and research about child development to interactions with infants, children, and adolescents in many settings. The chronological approach allows students to integrate knowledge about the different facets of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional growth to bring about an understanding of the whole child at each age. The coverage and pedagogical features in this book have been conceived and carefully executed to help students discover the excitement of studying child development and to equip them with tools they can use long after they take this class.