Growth and development of the young child / by Winifred Rand, Mary E. Sweeny, E. Lee Vincent.

  • Rand, Winifred.
Date:
1931
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    PeARGe aC [eb THE past decade has witnessed unusual progress in both teaching and research in the field of Child Development,— a field which has become the focal point for investigation and study by psychologists, nutritionists, physicians, educators, sociologists, biologists, geneticists, and others. It has been inevitable that each science has regarded Child Development from the viewpoint of its own field with the result that any one person wishing to teach or to be informed in this subject has found it difficult to coordinate the mate- rial available from all the fields, and hence to evaluate and organize it for practical use either in teaching or in living. The authors of this volume represent the fields of Parental Education, Physical Growth and Mental Growth. Their close personal and professional association in the Merrill-Palmer School has served to integrate their thinking, and has made possible in the preparation of this book a unified presentation of the subject of Child Development. It is hoped that the book will be of service to students of Child Care and Development and to parents. Every endeavor has been made to present the most thoroughly substantiated material in Child Development and to put the readers in touch with the knowledge of scientific sources and to convey the need for the replacement of mere opinion by scientific evidence wherever possible. Direct application has been made of scientific material to actual conditions of family life, and the discussions of growth and its determinants have been related to these practical situations. It is our belief that a clear understanding of the growth and development of children involves a knowledge and appreciation of the part played not only by heredity but also by physical and social environment. This text con- cerns itself with the growth and development of young