Human Development, 2nd Edition

Wendy Drewery is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean Graduate Studies in the School of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton/Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she teaches in the developmental and counseling programs. She has spent a good part of her academic life working on Integrating critical and constructionist ideas with respectful practice in Professional and intercultural settings. One of her recent projects in this regard involves supporting the development of restorative conferencing in schools.

Lise Bird is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has taught human development for a quarter of a century. Her teaching and research bring together critical perspectives informed by cultural issues. She is currently researching professional educational psychologists’ ideas about individual competence and the ‘nature/nurture’ question. She has also published recent papers on issues of children’s rights. She teaches in the areas of Developmental and Educational Psychology and Diversity Issues in Education.