Defending Childhood - Keeping the Promise of Early Education

Informationen zum Autor Beverly Falk is professor and director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at the School of Education, The City College of New York, and author of Teaching the Way Children Learn. Klappentext Brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Zusammenfassung Brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology! as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity! poverty! families and communities! and the media.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Falk, Beverly (EDT)/ Darling-Hammond Falk
• Assisted by: Beverly Falk (Editor), Sharon Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2012
• EAN: 9780807753118
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5311-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Early Childhood Education; Early Childhood Education Series; Early Childhood Education; Early Childhood Education Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education