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Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309324882
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 by : National Research Council

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.

Studying Children in Context

Author : M. Elizabeth Graue
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803972575
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Studying Children in Context written by M. Elizabeth Graue and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-02-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graue and Walsh discuss the research process, emphasising the areas where work with children presents particular challenges. They present contributions from numerous researchers as well as insights from their own fieldwork with children.

Parenting Matters

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309388570
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Parenting Matters by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Studying Children: A Cultural-Historical Approach

Author : Hedegaard, Marianne
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033523478X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Studying Children: A Cultural-Historical Approach by : Hedegaard, Marianne

Download or read book Studying Children: A Cultural-Historical Approach written by Hedegaard, Marianne and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses the complexity of child development. It provides a critique of alternative perspectives of research and development and shows how to do research with the concepts of cultural-historical theory.

Studying The Social Worlds Of Children

Author : Frances Chaput Waksler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135427577
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Studying The Social Worlds Of Children written by Frances Chaput Waksler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers which examine and assess the effects on children of socialisation and which attempt to explain a range of adult perspectives on children and their social worlds.

Exploring Nature

Author : Gaud Morel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780886829469
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Nature written by Gaud Morel and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the many ways in which humans use nature and how animals and plants exist in the wild.

The Study of Children in Religions

Author : Susan B. Ridgely
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814777465
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Children in Religions written by Susan B. Ridgely and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in religious studies has traditionally focused on adult subjects since working with children presents significantly more challenges to the researcher, such as getting the research protocol passed by the Internal Review Board, obtaining permission from parents and schools, and figuring out how to make sense of young worldviews. The Study of Children in Religions provides scholars with a comprehensive source to assist them in addressing many of the issues that often stop researchers from pursuing projects involving children. This handbook offers a broad range of methodological and conceptual models for scholars interested in conducting work with children. It not only illuminates some of the legal and ethical issues involved in working with youth and provides guidance in getting IRB approval, but also presents specific case studies from scholars who have engaged in child-centred research and here offer the fruits of their experience.Cases include those that use interviews and drawings to work with children in contemporary settings, as well as more historically focused endeavours to use material cultureosuch as Sunday school projects or religious board gamesoto study children's religious lives in past eras. The Study of Children in Religions offers concrete help to those who wish to conduct research on children and religion but are unsure of how to get started or how to frame their research. Contributors: Priscilla Alderson, Sally Anderson, Jennifer Beste, Chris Boyatzis, Ann Braude, Pia Christensen, Cindy Dell Clark, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Moira Hinderer, Zohreh Kermani, Ruqayya Khan, Phillipa Koch, Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Rebecca Sachs Norris, Sarah Pike, Susan B. Ridgely, E. Burke Rochford, Jr., and Diane Wolf Susan B. Ridgely is Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and the author of When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion.

Applied Child Study

Author : Anthony D. Pellegrini
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135682798
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Applied Child Study written by Anthony D. Pellegrini and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child study is a very complex field. Human beings, and children, specifically, are very complex beings. Consequently, simple answers and solutions to problems are very often just that: too simple. This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function. These theories and methods can be used as a kind of "tool kit" for application in a variety of situations by the people who work with children such as researchers, parents, educators, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, and child psychologists, to name but a few. In short, the book is written for people interested in how to examine and describe children as well as those interested in creating educational environments for children.

The Development of Children Study Guide

Author : Michael Cole
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716786733
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Children Study Guide written by Michael Cole and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study guide helps students to understand and retain the text material at a higher level than they are likely to achieve by reading the text alone. Each chapter includes a variety of practice tests and exercises to help integrate themes that reappear in various chapters. Each chapter also includes a review of key concepts, guided study questions, and section reviews.

The Development of Children Study Guide

Author : Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429217835
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis The Development of Children Study Guide by : Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino

Download or read book The Development of Children Study Guide written by Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study guide helps students to understand and retain the material in 'The Development of Children' at an even higher level than by reading the text alone. Each chapter includes practice tests and exercises, key concept reviews, guided study questions and section reviews.

The Children: how to Study Them

Author : Francis Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children: how to Study Them written by Francis Warner and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Neurons to Neighborhoods

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309069882
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book From Neurons to Neighborhoods written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.

I Learn from Children

Author : Caroline Pratt
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192157
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book I Learn from Children written by Caroline Pratt and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of an innovative American educator and the remarkable school she built—“a lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish” (The New York Times). Over a century ago, American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that fosters creativity and independent thought by asking the provocative question: “Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than . . . the child to the school?” A strong-willed small-town schoolteacher who ran a one-room schoolhouse by the time she was seventeen, Pratt came to viscerally reject the teaching methods of her day, which often featured a long-winded teacher at the front of the room and rows of miserable children sitting on benches nailed to the floor. In this “persuasive presentation of progressive education,” Pratt recounts how she founded what is now the dynamic City and Country School in New York City, invented the “unit blocks” that have become a staple in classrooms around the globe, and played an important role in reimagining preschool and primary-school education in ways that are essential for the tumultuously creative time we live in today (Kirkus Reviews).

An Ecological Approach To the Study of Child Care

Author : Miriam K. Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317782291
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis An Ecological Approach To the Study of Child Care by : Miriam K. Rosenthal

Download or read book An Ecological Approach To the Study of Child Care written by Miriam K. Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new type of childhood is experienced these days by many children in industrial societies that provide child care services. The studies summarized in this book stem from a conceptual model based on an ecological approach to the study of development. The family day care system in Israel is presented as a "case study" for the discussion of issues derived from this conceptual model -- issues which are of central concern to the investigation of child care in any society. This book establishes how historical and socio-economic processes: *influence the values and goals set by the society for its children, and its social policy concerning child care service; *are interpreted by parents and early childhood educators; *relate to different definitions of "quality care." Unique in its integrative analysis of the daily experiences of infants and toddlers in family day care, this volume examines cultural and social policy issues, family background and parental beliefs, caregiver's background and beliefs, the nature of the child care environment, and the child's personal characteristics. Its "theoretical" and "applied" orientation is important to researchers interested in the study of out-of-home-care for young children, as well as educators, developmental psychologists, sociologists, and social workers interested in the study of environmental influences on the child development. The ecological model and the applied implications of the study are of special relevance to practitioners in the field of early childhood.

Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development

Author : Thomas S. Weisner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226886646
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development by : Thomas S. Weisner

Download or read book Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development written by Thomas S. Weisner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods—the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.

Teaching Children Science

Author : Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226449920
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Children Science written by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the first systematic attempt to introduce science into elementary education, and it came at a time when institutions such as zoos, botanical gardens, natural history museums, and national parks were promoting the idea that direct knowledge of nature would benefit an increasingly urban and industrial nation. The definitive history of this once pervasive nature study movement, TeachingChildren Science emphasizes the scientific, pedagogical, and social incentives that encouraged primarily women teachers to explore nature in and beyond their classrooms. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt brings to vivid life the instructors and reformers who advanced nature study through on-campus schools, summer programs, textbooks, and public speaking. Within a generation, this highly successful hands-on approach migrated beyond public schools into summer camps, afterschool activities, and the scouting movement. Although the rich diversity of nature study classes eventually lost ground to increasingly standardized curricula, Kohlstedt locates its legacy in the living plants and animals in classrooms and environmental field trips that remain central parts of science education today.

The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child

Author : Linda C. Mayes
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316954327
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child written by Linda C. Mayes and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides answers to parenting concerns and issues and offers advice on everything from preparation for the birth of a first child and toilet training to discipline, learning styles, substance abuse, and health care.