Richard C. Sprinthall

PREFACE When we wrote the first edition of this book in the early 1970s, the world was different in many ways. The cold war, the Vietnam experience, the hippies and flower children, the early period of space explorations-all seem today to belong to a long-past era, to ancient history. On the other...

PREFACE Twenty-five years have now elapsed since Educational Psychology: A Developmental Approach first appeared. At the time of its publication in 1974, it represented a radical departure fi-om existing educational psychology texts, all of which seemed to us to fall into one of three...