Invitation to the Life Span (3rd Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Kathleen Stassen Berger

Professor Kathleen Stassen Berger completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Radcliffe College, earned her M.A.T. from Harvard and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University (USA). Her broad range of experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, teaching humanities and philosophy at the United Nations International School, teaching child and adolescent development to undergraduate and graduate students at Fordham University, teaching inmates earning paralegal degrees at Sing Sing Prison, and teaching undergraduates and graduates at both Quinnipiac University and Montclair State University. She has also been involved in education as the president of Community School Board in District Two in Manhattan.

For over 30 years, Dr. Berger has taught human development at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. The college students Professor Berger teaches every year come from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds representing a wide range of interests and consistently honor her with the highest teaching evaluations.

Kathleen's developmental textbooks are currently being used at nearly 700 universities and colleges in a dozen countries and in 5 languages.Her research interests include sibling relationships, adolescent identity, and bullying. As the mother of 4 daughters, she brings to her teaching and writing ample firsthand experience with human development.