Kimberly A. Gordon Biddle

Ana Garcia-Nevarez

This timely and accessible volume explores how our understanding of research in child development can help cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes children need for informed and thoughtful participation in society by viewing the curriculum through a developmental lens. Biddle and Garcia-Nevarez cover a range of key topics including characteristics of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development of children; heritable and environmental influences on children’s developing self; language and literacy development; mathematical cognition; growth mindsets; and evidence-based positive behavioral interventions and supports. The expert team of contributors offers an advanced exploration of developmental science and how this applies to learning and education in order to create inclusive environments that support children with a range of abilities, including those with the most significant medical, intellectual, and developmental delays. Each chapter contains boxes exploring how the topic relates to the themes of "Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Theory," "Research to Practice Connection," "Common Core and Other Standards," and "Social Justice and Diversity," ensuring comprehensive and consistent coverage across the volume. Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction will be essential reading for students of child development and education, as well as educators and those in teacher training who are interested in how theory and research can be effectively harnessed to improve children’s outcomes.

Pedagogy for Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values

Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction

Christi Crosby Bergin

This concise guide offers an introduction to how children and young people develop social and emotional competence, and how they display appropriate social behavior and emotional expression at different ages. Explaining the role of adults in a range of contexts and settings, this volume offers strategies for supporting competence and highlights key topics, such as attachment, prosocial behavior, social perspective taking, ethnic identity, social and emotional learning, gender identity, parenting styles, and much more. Moving through the different ages of childhood to emerging adulthood, the authors detail social and emotional development and the development of the self. They also offer strategies to foster social–emotional competence through these different ages. Social and Emotional Development in Children through Emerging Adults is designed for students and professionals in psychological, educational, health and social work settings who want to support and nurture children and young people to ensure their needs are met.

A Guide for Professionals

Social and Emotional Development in Children through Emerging Adults

Wanda J. Roundtree Henderson

Alicia Valero-Kerrick

An intro text for early childhood students, helping them enhance their professional practice through the application of educational and developmental theory and research.

Kimberly A. Gordon Biddle

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