Science of Learning and Development: Enhancing the Lives of All Young People

This book explores how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practices, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity, and prosperity of every child. It integrates findings from psychology, biology, sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes. It provides a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond, bringing together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 262 pages
\n Publication date: 22 June 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive text delves into significant shifts in the study of learning and human development, offering compelling evidence for how science can inform innovative designs of settings, policies, practices, and research to enhance the life paths, opportunities, and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a particular child, with a specific family, school, and community, to thrive in school and in life.

Expanding on key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history, with a particular emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes. It points toward potential solutions by understanding and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma.

The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the foundations and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.

\n Weight: 446g\n
Dimension: 220 x 276 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367481070\n \n