Product Description: A volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Series Editor Olivia N. Saracho, University of Maryland The Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education brings together in one source research techniques that researchers can use to collect data for studies that contribute to the knowledge in early childhood education...read more

Product Description: Over the last 35 years, studies focusing in young children's knowledge about the mental world have developed into an important area. This body of social knowledge is called theory of mind, which refers to the individuals' ability to interpret and anticipate the other individuals' thinking, feeling, and behavior based on their interpretation of the situation...read more

Product Description: Recently, a new understanding of creative thought and creative performance has surfaced. In addition, an interest has emerged in professional organizations especially those in early childhood education. In addition, current creativity researchers have initiated a far more sophisticated understanding of young children's creative thinking, ways to assess creativity, strategies to promote creativity, and research methodologies...read more

A volume in the series: Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education. Series Editor(s): Olivia Saracho, University of Maryland and Bernard Spodek, University of Illinois The purpose of this volume is to present a selection of chapters that reflect current issues relating to children s socialization processes that help them become successful members of their society. From birth children are unique in their rates of growth and development, including the development of their social awareness and their ability to interact socially. They interpret social events based on their developing life style and environmental experiences. The children s socialization is influenced by several important social forces including the family and its organization, their peer group, and the significant others in their lives. In Theories of Socialization and Social Development, Olivia Saracho and Bernard Spodek describe the children s socialization forces and the different developmental theories that have influenced our understanding of the socialization process. These include maturationist theory (developed by Arnold Gesell), constructivist theories (developed by such theorists as Jean Piaget, Lev S. Vygotsky, and Jerome Bruner), psychodynamic theories (developed by such theorists as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Alfred Adler), and ecological theory (developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner). Each theory provides interpretations of the meaning of the children s social development and describes the different characteristics for each age group in the developmental sequences.

Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This book discusses the social and historical contexts in which different forms of knowledge are formulated based on the perspective of social epistemology. It also discusses the emergence of social epistemology.

Contents: Emergence of Families, Communities, and Schools in Early Childhood Education: Introduction, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Challenges and Realities: Family-Community-School Partnership, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Families and Early Childhood Education Through the Years, Bernard Spodek and Olivia N. Saracho. Young Children Experiencing Divorce and Family Transitions: How Early Childhood Professionals Can Help, Marion F. Ehrenberg, Jacqueline E. Bush, Jennifer D. Pringle, Marei Luedemann, and Jennifer Geisretter. Family context and psychological development in early childhood: Educational implications, Enrique B. Arranz Freijo. Parenting Self-Efficacy and Competence in Relation to Young Children's Social and Academic Outcomes, Priscilla K. Coleman and Katherine H. Karraker. Emotion Regulation: Implications For Children's School Readiness and Achievement, Julia M. Braungart-Rieker and Ashley L. Hill."

Product Description: In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented. In essence this will provide a glimpse of the intellectual base of early childhood education in many parts of the worl...read more

Product Description: This book is divided into 12 chapters including: developmental play theories and children's social pretend play; developments in young children's mathematical reasoning; learning and teaching with computers in early childhood education; and early childhood social studies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume on literacy in early childhood education covers topics such as: teachers' roles in promoting literacy-related play; hypermediating literacy activity; creating opportunities for discourse; bridging home and school literacy; and engaging children in the appropriation of literacy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Modern curriculum study in the United States, though only a century old, is an essential component of education at all levels. Within the last decade alone, multiculturalism, technology, family systems and developmentally appropriate practices have moved awareness of curriculum issues from schools of education onto legislative agendas and into the front pages of newspapers...read more

Product Description: This volume describes and evaluates particular early childhood educational research methodologies, including: historical research; research using standardized tests; qualitative research; observational research; ethology; longitudinal research; teacher research; and meta-analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Play has been part of early childhood programs since the initial kindergarten developed by Friedreich Froebel more than one hundred and fifty years ago. While research shows that most teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some educators feel that children's cognitive styles should be taken into account when learning activities are planned for them. The term cognitive styles refers to one's personal style, and describes an individual's mode of understanding, thinking, remembering, judging, and solving problems; in short, how he or she responds to and makes sense of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Featuring contributions from those well known in early childhood evaluation, this volume addresses issues related to assessment, such as who does it and what purposes are served. It includes chapters on evaluating child care and preschools, and early childhood programmes.

The volume editors of this work cast an eye towards the future, where US schools and society will be increasingly populated by racially and ethnically diverse groups, more so than any other period in the country's history. Rachel Grant examines the practices and methods in the teaching of second language learners. Fred Genesee and Elena Nicoladis discuss bilingualism in preschool children. S. Jim Campos describes and analyses a preschool programme for Latino children. Celia Genishi and Margaret Borrego Brainard review the ways in which the language capacities of bilingual children are tested by teachers and institutions. Howard L. Smith and Paul E. Heckman look at a playground fight which becomes emblematic of the clashes between Spanish-dominant and English-dominant children. George P. Knight, Martha E. Bernal and Gustavo Carlo compare and contrast socialisation and individual behaviour among Mexican-American children. Francisco A. Villarruel, David R. Imig and Marjorie J. Kostelnick look at different family structures in culturally diverse families and their impact on children. Karen Shu-Minutoli also looks at the family: the characteristics, styles, and support needed in care of disabled, diverse children. Patricia A. Edwards, Kathleen L. Fear and Margaret A. Gallego examine parents' roles in the pursuit of fair education for their children, and how they can affect curriculum. In the last two chapters, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek discuss teacher preparation in early childhood education programmes for diverse chilren, and in conclusion, summarise the challenges that face us regarding the issue of linguistic and cultural diversity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This latest volume in the "Yearbook in Early Childhood Education" comes at an opportune time for early childhood educators. As more and more "exceptional" young children are being placed in mainstream settings, there is an increasing need for all early childhood educators, not just special educators, to be playing a new role in the education of young at-risk or disabled children...read more

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