Lifespan Development Canadian Edition 7th Edition
Kathy Douds
New Canadian co-author. Dr. Susan Chuang is a new co-author of Santrock Essentials of Life-span Development. Susan is a Full Professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario. To date, Susan has taught around 11,000 undergraduate students, primarily teaching the Human Development course in person and online. Her first line of research includes parenting, fathering, parent-child relationships, child and adolescent development, and school readiness in various sociocultural contexts.
Expanded Canadian context. Building upon its strong commitment to Canadian content, the new edition includes even more Canadian context for students. This is achieved through a strong emphasis on diversity, Indigenous content, inclusion of Canadian examples and locations, Canadian research and statistics, and coverage of current events and their effects on development.
Indigenous content integrated throughout. More Indigenous content has been integrated throughout the Second Canadian edition. Examples include a new Careers in Lifespan Development box featuring the co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives in Chapter 2, and an enhanced focus on Indigenous youth in Chapter 8.
Updated statistics and research. The Second Canadian edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest Canadian research and statistics. Every chapter in the new edition has been updated, ensuring relevancy for students.
New Connect Experience. Significant improvements to the instructor workflows in Connect have been made, including the addition of new features designed to make managing your course even easier. New features include the ability to add co-instructors to a section, a new Assignments tab, a redesigned section dashboard, optimizations for mobile use, and improved accessibility.
Essential coverage. Santrock offers essential coverage that can be covered in one semester. There are 13 chapters, which are organized chronologically and cover all periods of the human life span, from prenatal through late adulthood and death.
Canadian focused. Essentials of Life-span Development offers robust Canadian content with a strong focus on issues that are important to Canadians. In addition to Canadian research and statistics, Santrock also includes Indigenous content, an emphasis on diversity, and examples from across Canada.
Quest: Journey through the Life Span. Available in Connect, this experiential learning game provides students with opportunities to apply content from their human development curriculum to real-life scenarios. Students play unique characters of various ages who make decisions by applying key concepts and theories for each age as they negotiate events in an array of authentic environments. Additionally, students are exposed to different cultures and the intersections of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes by analyzing real-world behaviours and environments. Also assignable in Connect are auto-graded, follow-up questions to reach a higher level of critical thinking.
Milestones video module. Available in Connect, the McGraw Hill Milestones video series is a powerful tool that allows students to experience life as it unfolds, from infancy to adolescence and beyond. This groundbreaking, longitudinal video series tracks the development of real children as they progress through the early stages of physical, social, and emotional development in their first few weeks, months, and years of life. The Milestones video series also includes videos and interviews with adolescents and adults to reflect development through the entire lifespan.
SmartBook 2.0. Within Connect, students have access to SmartBook, an adaptive learning and reading tool that personalizes content to each student's unique needs. Because SmartBook creates the ideal study path for each student, every minute they spend studying is the most effective minute possible. SmartBook highlights the key topics students should focus on, and supplies links to additional learning materials like slideshows, videos and more so they can enhance their understanding of key learning objectives.
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Visualizing the Lifespan, Canadian Edition is part of the Wiley Visualizing series. This first Canadian edition presents lifespan development in a fresh new way by fully integrating visuals with content, while maintaining the rigor and currency of other textbooks. This groundbreaking visual approach paired with superior online technology and multi-media resources uniquely address the processing and learning style of today's student by making material both accessible and engaging without sacrificing rigor.
This new edition will also include WileyPLUS Learning Space which is an easy way for students to learn, collaborate, and grow. With WileyPLUS Learning Space, students create a personalized study plan, assess progress along the way, and make deeper connections as they interact with the course material and each other.
This is a VERY comprehensive book, integrating historical, medical and psychological information as it relates to human growth and development. That being said at 496 pages- it is really a graduate level book- as undergraduates would be...read more
This is a VERY comprehensive book, integrating historical, medical and psychological information as it relates to human growth and development. That being said at 496 pages- it is really a graduate level book- as undergraduates would be overwhelmed with it and its comprehensiveness. It is up to date and chock full of tables and figures and pictures and is well organized and rich and robust with depth.
Very timely and relevant- one notices the mention of COVID and it's impact on learning and the growth and development of the human organism.
Artificial intelligence will be integrated into this 10 chapter book relatively quickly. At first, when I saw 10 chapters, I thought this would be a superficial summary type of book but it is surprisingly an indepth very comprehensive book- one that might fit into an honors class.
Logical rational and reasonable---but the length is overwhelming- students might intially be drawn to the pictures charts and graphs- but this is a graduate level text for a graduate level class- in which the graduate students have plenty of time to read and review and reflect.
This is a ten-chapter book- but it really delves into each chapter extensively. I was initially happy to see the 10-chapter organization- but each of these chapters is rich and robust and in depth-. I suppose that students could be told to skim over the historical and medical parts and just glance at the charts and graphs and figures- but this is a THICK book- 496 pages- and it deserves a full semester. I would NOT recommend this for a summer class.
It is easy to reflect on the organization as it covers the human development from birth to death - and does so comprehensively. This is a book for reflective scholars- who want to stop and think about and in class- to discuss all of the issues comprehensively covered.
As I have already mentioned,----this is a book that deserves a full semester---and should not be used in a 4-week summer class or any 8-week approach. This book deserves the time to absorb, think about and reflect on the material that is interwoven with theory and factual knowledge and information.
This is a rich robust, but thick challenging book for serious graduate students who really do want to learn more not just about human growth and development- but the human condition !
The content parallels other text on lifespan development and course curricula. However, more contemporary research would increased its accuracy. Detailed discussions of risk and protective factors relative to each of the stages of development would provide a more comprehensive perspective. In addition, other issues of diversity (besides just socioeconomic background and culture) should be described.
This text contains relevant information, however, there are several older references. While this may be appropriate for theoretical and historical discussions of human development, it fails to include updates in science and technology that significantly influences development. In addition, the inclusion of case vignettes would improve relevance and engagement. The text is written and arranged in such a way that necessary updates will be relatively easy and straightforward to implement.
This text is well-organized and easy to read, which makes it ideal for undergraduates. The learning objectives could be more concisely written, as there are several sets of topic-specific learning objectives in each chapter.
The text appears to be presented in a consistent manner, with regard to terminology and framework. However, the degree of depth to which theories and concepts are covered varies. For example, there are fewer theories discussed in chapters middle adulthood through late adulthood, which may be a reflection of current literature.
The text consists of 10 chapters, organized by developmental stages and can be easily reorganized and realigned for a variety of course modalities. The text is also easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections that can be assigned at different points within the course