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Berk’s signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text’s “characters” who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of child development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains—physical, cognitive, emotional, and social—throughout the text narrative and in special features. Focusing on education and social policy as critical pieces of the dynamic system in which the child develops, Berk pays meticulous attention to the most recent scholarship in the field. Berk helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest and their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, counselors, social workers, and researchers.
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"An engaging book... current and balanced treatment of all areas of child development."---Martha Arterberry, Colby College"The coverage of diversity and multicultural issues . . . is one of the strengths of the text and one of the most important reasons that I adopt it for my course on child development."---Kristy Burkholder, University of Wisconsin, Madison"This is a textbook that students actually like to read."---Shayla Holub, University of Texas, Dallas"Comprehensive but readable Strong connection between research/concepts and how they apply to children in the real world."---Megan McLelland, Oregon State University"The cultural diversity representations and references are one of the major strengths of this text. . . and one of the major reasons I would select it. The content provides the essential basics for what students need to know and presents the information in ways that are relevant, contemporary in application, and backed by solid research."---Karen Peterson, University of Washington, Vancouver"A very informative, high-quality, and classy text. It is exceedingly well researched."---Robert Hiltonsmith, Radford University"This text has the best coverage of diversity and multicultural issues of any text on the market."---Debbie Laible, Lehigh University"I love the pedagogy of this text---I wouldn't change it. I think the features . . . are very helpful in breaking up the text and supporting student learning."---Tom Power, Washington State University
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