This 1st Canadian edition was created for Students in PSY 210: Developmental Psychology at Humber College, Ontario Canada with the generous institutional support and encouragement of John Stilla, Senior Dean and Chris Irwin, Associate Dean – both the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS).

This open textbook Lifespan Development: The Human Journey (First Canadian Edition) by Kristian Rodriguez Weihs and Amanda Baker Robinson, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, has been adapted from Lifespan Development – A Psychological Perspective by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Lally and Valentine-French’s version was in turn adapted from PSYC 333 Fundamentals of Lifespan Development by Dr. Erin Barker at Concordia University, Montreal and content replicated from the the original version on LibreTexts on Pressbooks.

In this first Canadian edition of the textbook, the following changes and additions were made:

  • Relevant Canadian data replaced US statistics and facts
  • US-specific content was removed
  • All “Link Your Learning” and “Real Life” callouts were added for additional active learning
  • All embedded videos and associated text were added to provide multiple means of representation, in alignment with Universal Design for Learning principles

While considerable Canadian content has added and newer research findings and statistical data have been integrated in this text, there remains work to be done in future iterations, including: the addition of more Canadian content and up-to-date research and statistics, multimedia links, and coverage of Indigenous and global lives and perspectives.

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