Developing Constructivist Early Childhood Curriculum - Practical Principals and Activities

This timely volume provides a constructivist interpretation of developmentally appropriate curriculum in early childhood education. Rheta DeVries, one of the founders of constructivist early education, and her colleagues provide the theoretical rationale and practical advice for conducting specific activities in the classroom. Descriptive vignettes are used to show how children's reasoning and teacher interventions are transformed in the course of extended experience with a physical phenomenon or group game. Throughout the book, constructivist teaching is illustrated and contrasted with the approaches found in three other classroom types.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rheta DeVries is a developmental psychologist, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Director of the Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education. Betty Zan is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. Carolyn Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Psychology. Rebecca Edmiaston is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. Christina Sales is a Research Associate. All are at the University of Northern Iowa and the Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education.

Zusammenfassung

This work provides a constructivist interpretation of developmentally appropriate curriculum in early childhood education. It provides the theoretical rationale and the practical advice for conducting specific activities in the classroom.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rheta DeVries, Rebecca Edmiaston, Carolyn Hildebrandt, Christie Sales, Betty Zan
• Mitarbeit: Leslie R Williams (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.11.2001
• EAN: 9780807741207
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4120-7
• Seiten: 264
• Abmessung: 229 mm x 159 mm x 16 mm
• Gewicht: 372 g
• Serien: Early Childhood Education Series; Early Childhood Education Seri; Early Childhood Education; Early Childhood Education Series; Early Childhood Education Seri
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen