What is it that makes sports so entertaining and engaging? Unlike a movie or even a "reality" show, when you watch sports you are witnessing actual drama, struggle, triumph, and pain. This is unscripted and happening in real time. That's what makes sports as popular as it is.For anyone who has ever...
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Shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas.
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How can psychologists contribute to the development and well-being of children in practical ways? Do the practicalities of psychological work with children in clinical, educational and legal settings allow us to evaluate competing psychological explanations?
Dealing in turn with a range of issues in...
The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers...
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