According to
Prof. Dr. M. Meziyet Ari, the book provides a systematic and holistic approach to course material that emphasizes the connections between different aspects of child development, helps students better understand the concepts, and relates developmental connections with real life. With these features, it is an important resource for undergraduate students in the fields of child development, psychology, and education that conveys the nature of human development, including both classical theory and research, as well as recent research and debates.
The headings in each section of the Child Development book are functional for readers:
To help students learn about child development more effectively, at the end of each main chapter are Review, Connect and Reflect, asking students to review the main topics in the chapter, relate these to existing knowledge, and relate what they have learned through their personal journeys throughout life. In addition, Link to Research describes a study or program that shows how research in the field of child development is conducted and affects understanding of discipline. In addition, the Developmental Connection, which appears multiple times in the margins of each chapter, guides students to where the topic is discussed in a previous, current, or next chapter. This feature emphasizes the relationships that occur throughout development and the connections between biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes.
The book helps students make research and developmental connections, as well as showing the important connections between the concepts discussed and the real world. In this edition, real-life links are made explicitly in the Parenting Connection, Connection with Diversity, and Connection with Professions.
In this current edition of the book "Child Development", each of the 17 chapters under the titles The Nature of Child Development; Biological Processes, Physical Development and Perceptual Development; Cognition and Language; Socioemotional Development; Social Contexts of Development provide detailed reviews by leading experts in the field of child development and It was renewed in line with its recommendations and enriched with current examples.
