Understanding Children's Worlds

G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children-and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large. • Draws on behavioral genetic research from around the world, including the UK-based Twins' Early Development Study (TEDS), one of the largest twin studies in the world • Offers a unique viewpoint by bringing together genetics and education, disciplines with a historically difficult relationship • Shows that genetic influence is not the same as genetic determinism and that the environment matters at least as much as genes • Designed to spark a public debate about what naturally-occurring individual differences mean for education and equality

Bullying at School is the definitive book on bullying/victim problems in school and on effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems.

Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others. • Formulates an original theory about children's experiences with exclusion and how they understand the world of discrimination based on group membership • Brings together Social Domain Theory and Social Identity Theory to explain how children view exclusion that often results in prejudice, and inclusion that reflects social justice and morality • Presents new research data consisting of in-depth interviews from childhood to late adolescence, observational findings with peer groups, and experimental paradigms that test how children understand group dynamics and social norms, and show either group bias or morality • Illustrates data with direct quotes from children along with diagrams depicting their social understanding • Presents new insights about the origins of prejudice and group bias, as well as morality and fairness, drawn from extensive original data