Author: Cynthia Lightfoot PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: taking, risk, adolescent, culture
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 1997-03-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1572302321
ISBN-13: 9781572302327

An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this elegantly written book shows that taking risks is a natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idioms of culture, Cynthia Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which r

Authors:Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole,
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: children, development
Number of Pages: 667
Published: 2008-12-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1429202254
ISBN-13: 9781429202251

Like no other text, The Development of Children tells the story of how biological and cultural processes intertwine over the course of childhood. Building on the legacy of Michael and Sheila Cole, and now under the lead authorship of Cynthia Lightfoot, this acclaimed textbook enters an exciting new era, bringing an integrated biocultural perspective to the teaching and learning of childdevelopment. Within the chronological organization of the book, you will find a continued emphasis on contemporary research, biology and the brain, the linking of theory to practice, and the emphasis on cultural

Authors:Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole, Cynthia Lightfoot,
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: children, development
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2004-06-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0716755556
ISBN-13: 9780716755555

Through four editions, The Development of Children has provided students and instructors with a rigorous textbook that encompasses both scientific research and the authors’ years of practical experience. For the Fifth Edition, Michael and Shelia Cole are joined by Cynthia Lightfoot, whose expertise and engaging style further enhances this well-respected book. Throughout the text, all three authors encourage students to better understand their own lives, as well as the process of development.

Authors:Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole, Cynthia Lightfoot,
Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
Keywords: children, development
Number of Pages: 667
Published: 2009-03-26
List price: $69.43
ISBN-10: 1429224797
ISBN-13: 9781429224796

This is a new edition of the popular developmental psychology textbook, completely revised with a new lead author and 30 per cent new material."Cynthia Lightfoot" has completely revised the previous edition and added 30 per cent new material. It covers: neuroscience, applications, policy issues, and adolescence. It offers new coverage, with emphasis on urban and immigrant experience. Revised content reflects changes in the understanding of the growing brain. Profiles of people with development-related jobs show developmental psychology at work in the real world.Taking a chronological approach,

Author: J. B. Lightfoot
Publisher: Crossway Books
Keywords: commentaries, classic, crossway, philippians
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-10-05
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0891078002
ISBN-13: 9780891078005

For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentaries present the very best work on individual Bible books, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness for today’s believers. Many Christians consider the apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians a special treasure. Its grand themes of spiritual joy and vitality, the self-humbling Savior who gave his life for us, the good news of a salvation that is superior to

Author: David Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emerge, languages, new
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521676290
ISBN-13: 9780521676298

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different, complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important distinction between ’external language’ (language as it exists in the worl

Author: David Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emerge, languages, new
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2006-02-06
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0521859131
ISBN-13: 9780521859134

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different, complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important distinction between ’external language’ (language as it exists in the worl