Includes bibliographical references.

Basic concepts and issues on human development: Human development: meaning, concepts, and approaches -- The stages of development and developmental tasks -- Issues on human development -- Research in child and adolescent development -- Developmental theories and other relevant theories: Freud's psychoanalytic theory -- Piaget's stages of cognitive development -- Erikson's psycho-social theory of development -- Kohlberg's stages of moral development -- Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory -- Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory -- Development of the learners at various stages: Pre-natal period: Pre-natal development -- Infancy and toddlerhood: Physical development of infants and toddlers -- Cognitive development of infants and toddlers -- Socio-emotional development of infants and toddlers -- Early childhood (the preschooler): Preschooler's physical development -- Cognitive development of the preschoolers -- Socio-emotional development of the preschooler -- Middle childhood (the primary schooler): Physical development of the primary pupil -- Cognitive development of the primary schoolers -- Socio-emotional development of primary schoolers -- Late childhood (the intermediate schooler): Physical development of the intermediate pupil -- Cognitive development of the intermediate pupil -- Socio-emotional development of the intermediate pupil -- Adolescence (the high school learner): Physical development of the high school learners -- Cognitive development of the high school learners -- Socio-emotional development of the high school learners.