Christine Howe

Gebundenes Buch

Peer Groups Childrens Development

Beschreibung

Peer Groups and Children's Development considers the experiences of school-aged children with their peer groups. The book looks at the formal peer groups that children are placed in for teaching and learning, covering such topics as the class size debate, mixed-ability vs. ability-based teaching, gender and classroom dialogue, and dialogic teaching and cooperative learning. Howe also provides an in-depth examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of a child's informal peer relationships, including those associated with cliques, friendships, and adolescent gangs. Evidence presented throughout reveals how formal and informal aspects of peer groups interrelate to a great extent in determining patterns of development. This has significant implications for research and theory, as well as for the practical concerns of parents, teachers, counselors, school psychologists, and policy makers. Informed by the latest research and scholarship, Peer Groups and Children's Development offers revelatory insights into the effects of peer relationships on a child's intellectual, personal and social development.

Autor

Christine Howe is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. Previously she was Professor of Psychology at the University of Strathclyde. Her main research interests are peer interaction and conceptual growth, children's reasoning in mathematics and science, and communication and social relations among children. In addition to publishing seven books and over 100 journal articles, Christine was for many years co-editor of the journal Social Development and has served as Chair of the British Psychological Society's Developmental Section.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781405179454
• ISBN-10: 1405179457
• Artikelnr.: 31698237

Rezensionen

""Both undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in education, child
psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology would find the book, or
particular chapters, useful as they explore the nature of peer groups in educational settings.
Researchers in psychology will become better aware of the many facets of school and
classroom life that should be considered when studying children in the classroom context". (PsycCritiques, 8 December 2010)
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"The experiences of schoolchildren with their peer groups and the implications for social, personal and intellectual development are considered here, as Howe reviews and integrates literature relating to classroom and out-of-class settings.

The text is intended to address psychologists' and educationalists' research concerns, as well as the practical concerns of teachers, parents, counsellors and policymakers." (Times Higher Education, November 2010)"This is the book that we were all expecting from Christine Howe:truly interdisciplinary and at the crossroads of psychology andeducation. It is well-informed - a bridge between the manyinsights of researchers and educationalists from all over theworld. But it also faces difficult issues, and puts them under thescrutiny of experimental and observational evidence without beingafraid to go against some established beliefs. Compulsory readingfor all those interested in the consequences of children's peergroup experience in the classroom."
--Professor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Institute ofPsychology and Education, University of Neuchâtel

"Christine Howe's thoroughly researched book offers a thoughtfulanalysis of the wide literature on children's experiences ofthe peer group and its profound influence on their social,emotional and educational development. Practitioners andresearchers will be enthralled and inspired by this sensitive andinformed account of the social-cultural contexts in which childrenlearn and grow."
--Helen Cowie, Research Professor, University ofSurrey, UK

"This important book offers an engaging and accessibleintroduction to the contemporary literature concerning thedevelopmental significance of children's peer groups. It is adistinctive work, not least because it emphasises the role of peersin children's well-being, when so much other work has chosen tofocus on their negative impact."
--Professor Karen Littleton, The Open University,UK

"This is an excellent and timely book; scholarly andintellectually coherent, yet accessible topractitioners."
--Peter Blatchford, University of London