Download or read book Concepts for Care written by John Ronald Lally and published by WestEd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading experts in infant/toddler development have contributed succinct essays drawn from research, theory, clinical case studies, and carefully documented practice. Each essay represents current thinking in the field of infant/toddler development and care. Individually and as a collection, the essays provide a springboard for reflection, discussion, and further exploration, especially for infant/toddler professionals seeking to enhance their programs and for students in the field of early care and education.
Download or read book The Child and Society written by David Elkind and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee written by Wendy Mogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.
Download or read book Essays on Child Development and Skills Formation written by Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Download or read book Child Development written by A. R. Stone and published by A. R. Stone. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the human psyche from birth to adulthood is a fascinating journey of growth and interaction. These essays and practical reports represent some key theories and research within the psychology of child development. The collection of essays and practical reports herein are for demonstrational purposes to introduce the reader to style, format and material of undergraduate level child development study.
Download or read book Leo the Late Bloomer written by Robert Kraus and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready. 'Reassuring for other late bloomers, this book is illustrated with beguiling pictures.' -- Saturday Review.
Download or read book Three Essays on Child Development written by Mario Ramos Veloza and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics literature is interested in how child cognitive and socio-emotional skills develop during childhood. Evolution of skills is crucial to determine productivity, criminality among other social and economic outcomes. The government has a role in shaping abilities improving conditions at home or school. Thus, initial deficiencies of children in disadvantageous households can be compensated by increasing resources or material investments. These essays investigate how computers and income affect traditional measures of academic success. Also, how parental conflict is involved in a dynamic framework is investigated. The first chapter analyzes whether access to computers in schools improves performance in math and language standardized tests. Computers and in general technology are part of current living conditions, therefore, there has been a lot of debate whether they contribute to learning. Computers can affect tests because they can substitute or complement teachers and material inputs at school. The analysis is carried out using "Computadores para Educar" a nationwide program in Colombia that allocates computers in public schools. The program started in 2000 as a presidential initiative to improve access and use of information technologies. Results indicate that there is no gain on language and mathematics achievement tests. In the second paper, we focus on the analysis of how cash transfers that affect the budget constraint may have a different effect on child outcomes over the income distribution. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we analyze the impact of support assistance on children from households with low to moderate income in the United States. The data is consistent with two specifications for the relationship between child outcomes and income: a linear and linear in the logarithm. This finding implies that public programs aiming to improve math and reading achievement tests may increase transfers to children from households at the low end of the income distribution. The final chapter includes the effect of parental conflict into skill development during childhood. Parental conflict is a non-tangible input related with psychological well-being of the parents. There is evidence that conflict adversely affects cognitive and non-cognitive skill development, but this is the first study that jointly analyzes the impact on both skills. Estimates suggest that reductions in conflict benefits skills and adult outcomes. Cognitive development is more affected during early childhood and non-cognitive development for later ages. The effect of reducing parental conflict on years of education completed is similar to the effect of increasing parental time but lower than the effect of increasing material investments.
Download or read book The Magic Years written by Selma H. Fraiberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work on early childhood development that is as relevant today as when it was first published 60 years ago. To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and perception, she discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the qualities—above all, the quality of understanding—that can provide the right answer at critical moments.
Download or read book The Education of a British Protected Child written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest writers of the modern era, an intimate and essential collection of personal essays on home, identity, and colonialism Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Diaspora, from a glimpse into his extraordinary family life and his thoughts on the potent symbolism of President Obama’s elections—this charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise collection is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
Download or read book Child Development written by Barbara Maughan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of the causes and consequences of impairments to children's health and development has been transformed in recent years. This collection brings together key journal articles in the field on a range of issues such the relative contribution of genetics and the environment, the way in which the brain re-wires itself at critical points in a child's development and the interplay between environmental influences with the individual characteristics of the child.
Download or read book Thinking Critically About Child Development written by Jean Mercer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the updated Third Edition of Thinking Critically About Child Development, previously titled Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, Jean Mercer offers 59 essays that confront popular misconceptions and fallacies about the field. Intriguing vignettes and critical thinking questions frame each essay, encouraging readers to think like social scientists and become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. Timely topics and DSM-5 references make the book an engaging supplement for both chronologically and topically arranged child development texts.
Download or read book Essays on Child Development in Developing Countries written by Sarah Davidson Humpage and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Images of the Young Child written by David Elkind and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the notion that perceptions of children and childhood shape approaches to education and child rearing. The essays include: (1) "The Child Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," on how children have been regarded throughout recorded history; (2) "Piaget and Montessori in the Classroom," examining the different ways these renowned figures in early childhood education viewed the development and education of young children; (3) "Work Is Hardly Child's Play," on children's play and how it has been conceptualized by different investigators; (4) "Development in Early Childhood," summarizing contemporary scientific knowledge about child growth and development; (5) "Humanizing the Curriculum," on educational reform; (6) "We Can Teach Reading Better," about better understanding of the process of reading; (7) "Resistance to Developmentally Appropriate Practice: A Case Study in Educational Inertia," on the relationship between educational change and educational philosophy; (8) "The Hurried Child: Is Our Impatient Society Depriving Kids of Their Right To Be Children?" about early academic pressure on children; (9) "Overwhelmed at an Early Age," a further discussion of the effects of hurrying children academically; and (10) "Questions Parents Ask," providing answers to frequently asked questions. Eight of the essays include references. (TJQ)
Download or read book Contemporary Constructions of the Child written by Frank S. Kessel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991, this volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Among the topics examined: infant perception, action and social cognition; concept development and language; children's play; parent education; children with autism and Tourette’s Syndrome; pediatrics and child development; and science, practice, and gender roles in early child psychology. A distinctive unifying theme arises from the contributors’ discussions of substantive ideas in the context of their own impressive intellectual biographies. While providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, the contributors honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.
Download or read book Essays on Child Development and Skills Formation written by Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Development written by A. R. Stone and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the human psyche from birth to adulthood is a fascinating journey of growth and interaction. These essays and practical reports represent some key theories and research within the psychology of child development. The collection of essays and practical reports herein are for demonstrational purposes to introduce the reader to style, format and material of undergraduate level child development study.
