Perspectives on Child Development

allows the reader to discover the value of the different perspectives found in this field from the viewpoint of people who work with, live with and care for children.

The text presents critical stopping points in the text where students can think about perspectives - how the material they just read could apply to someone they know, someone they don't know, or most importantly, how it could apply to them. The authors take the Perspectives theme a step further and "introduce" students to real people involved in child development from all walks of life: parents, teachers, and social workers, scholars, researchers, and therapists.

Studying children from various viewpoints and understanding that there is more than one opinion on how to raise children, how best to work with children, and how to effect change in our society to better accommodate children is one of the strongest assets of this book.