Play Along 1-3
Don’t sit on the sidelines while your baby passively watches movies and videos – play along with your baby! The Play Along with Me Interactive Development Program is especially designed to give you an active, hands-on role in the most vital aspect of your child’s earliest development. It’s bonding at it’s best! The Play Along With Me learning kit provides everything you need to create a rich, interactive learning environment for your baby. This active learning program grows with your child – from baby to age 3.
This book integrates in a unique way all that is known about changing teachers' practice, the key to all educational development. All attempts to ` raise standards' or to 'make schools relevant to the 21st century' rest on helping teachers to develop new skills. The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory draws on the author's 30 years of experience, on a series of new empirical studies, and on the extensive literature on staff development to develop an integrated model of effective professional development.
INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY : A Guide to Participatory Development Communication
This guide is intended for people
working in research and development. It introduces participatory
development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way
communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop,
and evaluate communication strategies to address the following
questions:
How can researchers and practitioners improve communication with local communities and other stakeholders?
How
can two-way communication enhance community participation in research
and development initiatives and improve the capacity of communities to
participate in the management of their natural resources?
How
can researchers, community members, and development practitioners
improve their ability to effectively reach policymakers and promote
change?
Economic Development
Economic Development is the most comprehensive text available on the
subject. It is written in a clear, lively and readable fashion which
makes it very accessible to students. It deals impressively with
theory, policy and institutional issues in the best traditions of
political economy and draws intelligently on concrete country studies.
It highlights the major contemporary debates in policy and their
theoretical underpinnings. For all these reasons it will quickly
eclipse other textbooks in the field.
TTC - Theories of Human Development
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 197
Taught by Malcolm W. Watson
Brandeis University
Ph.D., University of Denver
Have you ever wondered where the terms "terrible twos’’ and "identity crisis" come from?
Did you know that the notion that children are different from adults, and require special care, is only about 200 years old?
Did you know we can trace most of our modern ideas about children to just two renowned thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries?
These are just a few of the fascinating aspects of the field of "human development": the science that studies how we learn and develop psychologically, from birth to the end of life. To a large extent, the study of human development is the study of child development, because the most significant changes take place from infancy through adolescence. This very young science not only enables us to understand children and help them develop optimally, but also gives us profound insights into who we are as adults.
In Theories of Human Development, Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces you to the six theories that have had perhaps the greatest influence on this field. You will meet the people who formulated each theory, become familiar with their philosophical backgrounds and the historical contexts in which they worked, and study the specific processes of human development that each theory describes.
Along the way, you will evaluate the strength and weaknesses of each theory. How do these six great theories complement or contradict one another? What do they tell us, as a whole, about human development?
Six Theories of How We Become Who We Are
TTC - Theories of Human Development 
