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Child and Adolescent Development in Your Classroom Paperback – 7 October 2013
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- ISBN-101285427343
- ISBN-13978-1285427348
- Edition2
- PublisherWadsworth ISE
- Publication date7 October 2013
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions21.59 x 3.18 x 27.31 cm
- Print length736 pages
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About the Author
Christi Bergin earned a Ph.D. in child development and early childhood education at Stanford University and is a developmental psychologist. Her research focuses on the socio-emotional development of typical children as well as the physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development of infants and children in families struggling with poverty, drug use and child abuse. She has observed hundreds of parent-child interactions, including in-home visits to so-called crack houses." Dr. Bergin has conducted research in both schools and medical centers. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Literacy Research, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Child Maltreatment, Journal of Adolescence and Infant Mental Health Journal, among others. Through her research, experience as a preschool teacher and work as a community volunteer, she has extensive experience with children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. She is the co-founder of the Network for Educator Effectiveness, which has 302 member school districts. Through this network she has trained hundreds of principals to accurately measure teaching practices and provide useful feedback to help teachers grow professionally. Dr. Christi Bergin directs the nation�s premiere research lab on prosocial education, that is, improving the social interaction and positive behavior of school-age children. She is president-elect of the social-emotional learning group of the American Educational Research Association."
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- Publisher : Wadsworth ISE; 2 edition (7 October 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 736 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1285427343
- ISBN-13 : 978-1285427348
- Dimensions : 21.59 x 3.18 x 27.31 cm
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About the authors
Christi Bergin is Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the College of Education at the University of Missouri. She earned a Ph.D. in child development and early childhood education at Stanford University, and is a developmental psychologist.
Through her research, experience teaching, and work as a community volunteer with youth, she has extensive experience with children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds which is evident in her books. A favorite experience is leading summer camps where she taught wilderness survival skills to teenage girls.
She hails from semi-rural Chico, California, but has lived in five states. She is the mother of four, mother-in-law of four, and grandmother of six people that she happens to like quite a lot.
Dr. Bergin's research focuses on the social-emotional development of typical infants to adolescents, as well as the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development of high-risk children in families struggling with poverty, drug use, and child abuse. She has conducted research in schools, families, and medical centers. She has observed hundreds of parent-child interactions, including meeting with parents in so-called "crack houses." She is the co-founder of the Network for Educator Effectiveness, which has 285 member school districts. Through this network she has trained hundreds of principals to measure teaching practice and provide useful feedback to help teachers grow professionally. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Literacy Research, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Child Maltreatment, Journal of Adolescence, and Infant Mental Health Journal, among others.
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