School age children : development and relationships /
Mollie S. Smart and Russell C. Smart
- New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, c1973
- ix, 582 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Infancy -- Part II. The preschool child -- Part III. The school-age child -- Part IV. The adolescent.
Almost all cultures take some notice of the child's entering a new phase of life at 6 or 7 years of age. Although there are no general stages that are unique wholes, age 6 or 7 marks a shift in important processes of development. The fact that formal education is begun at this time in so many different cultures indicates widespread perception of such a shift.