Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood

by Laura E. Berk

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, social workers, and researchers. Theory and Research in Child Development, Foundations of Development, Infancy and the First Two years, Early Two to Six Years, Middle Six to Eleven Years. Child Development

Genres: School, Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Education

672 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Christa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was informative and gives a great overview of major topics in early childhood development while also highlighting some less prevalent ideas as alternatives. However, I found some really egregious assumptions in its pages (particularly about people of low economic status and people from non-American and non-White cultures), and some weird things stated as fact that have yet to be determined by research (for example, that women absolutely should not smoke marijuana when the effects of occasional marijuana use by pregnant women hasn't really been studied). That said, it's an easy read and the lack of objectivity on some subjects is pretty apparent to anyone who has some ECE background.

[Görkem Saylam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood | Laura E. Berk
Scoring Rubric
1: baseline
2: creative contextualization bcs of covering almost all child development basics in prenatal era through middle childhood
1: routine conceptualization bcs of no new holistic comprehension on child development in prenatal era through middle childhood
4: total points by 5

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used this text while teaching Child Development for the first time. The chapters are well organized, and it's written at an approachable level. The instructor's materials and Revel were very helpful.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for schooling.

[piper · Rating 3 out of 5]

finally finishing books i’ve been reading for a whole semester is the best feeling lol
child development 🫶🫶🫶

[yasmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

LETS GO!!!! manifesting the A+

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's good though at times repetitive and exhaustive.

[Jesse Booth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I studied this textbook for a Psych class in college. I found many of the insights and studies within this book helpful and informative. I feel like I understand my own children quite a bit better, and hopefully, I'll be a better father to them because of it. I will agree with the other reviewers that there is some bias and assumptions on the author's part, but often she even states that there have been no studies associated with these theories.

[Keeley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough and easy to read. Loved the research backed theory to how children grow and learn.

[Mariah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and easy to read. I would have never read it if it wasn't required for school but I did enjoy it. Always a plus in my book.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the book, but political biases abound throughout which was a disappointment. I don't care what your political views are, I want facts supported by research.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a textbook. It was ok as far as textbooks go.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book. It was very helpful in my understanding child growth and development.