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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY<br />

The Adolescent, 3 rd edition<br />

ISBN: 9780796224866<br />

Authors: Eldrie Gouws, Nicky<br />

Kruger and Sanet Burger<br />

Copyright: 2008<br />

Extent: 256pp<br />

Format: Soft cover<br />

Description<br />

The Adolescent examines adolescents<br />

as individuals and complex beings. In<br />

the process of growing from a child<br />

into an adult, intellectual, emotional<br />

and social qualities develop in<br />

different ways, at different rates and at<br />

different stages.<br />

Features<br />

• Updates of all chapters, with new<br />

research<br />

• South African case studies<br />

• Updated information on HIV/AIDS<br />

• Drug abuse, with specific reference to<br />

Southern Africa<br />

• The implications of technology,<br />

including MXit, online games,<br />

Facebook and similar applications.<br />

Contents<br />

1: Introduction<br />

2: Physical development<br />

3: Cognitive development<br />

4: Social development<br />

5: Emotional, moral and religious<br />

development<br />

6: The adolescent in transition<br />

7: Special concerns in adolescent<br />

development<br />

8: Social concerns in adolescence<br />

<strong>Education</strong>al Psychology: An African Perspective, 3 rd edition<br />

ISBN: 9780796209023<br />

Author: TS Mwamwenda<br />

Copyright: 2004<br />

Extent: 530pp<br />

Format: Soft cover<br />

Description<br />

This book offers students an<br />

understanding of fundamental<br />

principles of psychology; educational<br />

psychology and its application<br />

to teaching; human growth and<br />

development (including cognitive<br />

development); theories of learning,<br />

memory and motivation; and theories<br />

of personality.<br />

Examples from the following<br />

countries are used in the book:<br />

South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,<br />

Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe,<br />

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and<br />

Nigeria.<br />

Contents<br />

1: Psychology, educational psychology<br />

and its application to teaching<br />

2: How information on human behaviour<br />

is obtained<br />

3: Human growth and development<br />

4: Prenatal development: Dangers and<br />

safeguards<br />

5: Infancy<br />

6: Early childhood<br />

7: Late childhood<br />

8: Adolescence<br />

9: Adulthood and old age<br />

10: Cognitive development<br />

11: Cognitive development in African<br />

children<br />

12: Moral development<br />

13: Language development<br />

14: Human sexuality<br />

15: Learning<br />

16: Cognitive views of learning<br />

17: Gestalt views of learning<br />

18: Memory<br />

19: Sleep as part of human behaviour<br />

20: Motivation<br />

21: Intelligence<br />

22: Individual differences<br />

23: Transfer of learning<br />

24: Maintaining discipline and<br />

management at school<br />

25: Theories of personality<br />

26: Psychosocial and interpersonal<br />

perspectives on personality<br />

development<br />

27: Self-concept<br />

28: Circumcision: Problems and solutions<br />

29: The self as part of the African<br />

personality<br />

30: Exceptional children<br />

<strong>Education</strong>al Psychology 16

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