What If Everybody Understood Child Development? (eBook)

Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children′s Lives

Rae Pica (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
160 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5063-0515-8 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part I. Understanding Children
1. All Children Are Not the Same
2. The Earlier the Better?
3. The Power of Joy
4. Bubble Wrapping Not Required
5. When Did a Hug Become a Bad Thing?
6. Teaching Girls They’re More Than a Pretty Face
7. Doing Away With the “Baby Stuff”
8. “But Competition Is Human Nature”
9. Terrorist Tots?
Part II. Understanding the Mind/Body Connection
10. The Myth of the Brain/Body Dichotomy
11. Why Does Sitting Still Equal Learning?
12. In Defense of Active Learning
13. “Play” Is Not a Four-Letter Word
14. The Body Matters, Too
15. Reading, Writing, ’Rithmetic . . . and Recess
16. Why Kids Need “Gym”
Part III. Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practice
17. In Defense of Authentic Learning
18. Who Should Lead the Learning?
19. The Trouble With Testing
20. Failure Is an Option
21. Should We Teach Handwriting in the Digital Age?
22. Just Say “No” to Keyboarding in Kindergarten
23. iPads or Play-Doh?
24. The Homework Debate
25. In Defense of the Arts
26. No More “Good Job!”
27. Bribes and Threats Work, But . . .
28. Time to Give Time-Out a Time-Out
29. “You’re Outta Here!”

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2015
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Vorschule / Kita
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
• Schlagworte: brain • early childhood • Kindergarten • Mind/Body • Play • Preschool • young children
• ISBN-10: 1-5063-0515-6 / 1506305156
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-0515-8 / 9781506305158