BY FOWLER D. BROOKS, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY DEPAUW UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF « THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE », WITH THE COLLABORATION OF LAURANCE F. SHAFFER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Publication Information : Book Title : Child Psychology. Contributors : Fowler D. Brooks – author. Publisher : Houghton Mifflin. Place of Publication : Boston. Publication Year : 1937.
PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
TO EACH generation is given the perennial task and responsibility of providing suitable education and training for its young. The accumulating mass of evidence from a wide variety of sources indicates the fundamental importance of the child’s growth and during the first dozen years of his life for his later health, happiness, and effectiveness.
This volume, covering the first twelve years of the child’s life, has been prepared in response to numerous requests for a companion volume the author’s Psychology of Adolescence. It has been developed in connection with courses and addresses on Child Psychology given by the author. Several hundred undergraduate and graduate students, elementary teachers and principals in the, author’s classes at Johns Hopkins and DePauw and in summer sessions at the universities of Cincinnati Southern California and Wisconsin have influenced it through questions, discussions, and conferences. An equally large number of parents and teachers have had an important part in its development through discussions and conferences in parent-teacher, child study, and A.A.U.W. groups.