Education Catalogue - Pearson
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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 />
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