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Direct linkDavid F. Lancy – Oxford University Press, 2024
In "Learning Without Lessons," David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Independent Study, Play
Maria Sargent – Brookes Publishing Company, 2025
How do young children learn, and what do educators need to know and do to teach them? Covering the full birth-8 early childhood age range, this introductory text delivers up-to-date answers through a unique lens: a deep focus on the neurological foundations of developmentally appropriate practices. Preservice and inservice educators will explore…
Descriptors: Young Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Neurology, Child Development
Peterson, Jean Sunde; Peters, Daniel B. – Free Spirit Publishing, 2021
Many bright and gifted kids do not feel understood or supported. For adults wanting to change that, "Bright, Complex Kids" provides guidance for gaining entrance to their internal world. This practical and easy-to-use field guide includes ideas for how and why to: (1) listen and respond; (2) self-monitor adult biases; (3) avoid…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Child Development, Interpersonal Competence, Bias
Patricia Cantor; Melinda Holohan; Jean Rogers – Teachers College Press, 2025
This book equips early childhood professionals to grow their "screen awareness"--the knowledge and practices that uphold the developmental well-being and rights of children in a screen-based, media-centric society. The authors introduce the Screen-Aware Framework for Early Childhood (SAFEC), a versatile approach for making informed,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Ruth Swanwick; Daniel Fobi; Yaw Offei; Alexander Oppong – Oxford University Press, 2024
This book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the early education and care of young deaf children, and the support of their caregivers. The authors investigate what it takes to facilitate deaf children's progress through early childhood, focusing on…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sociocultural Patterns, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Costa, Arthur L.; Kallick, Bena O. – ASCD, 2019
In the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a foundation for vocabulary, values, cognitive processes, and social skills. Educators, you can help influence that development by teaching the skills and dispositions of intelligent, creative, effective decision…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Child Development, Teacher Role
Yang Wang – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book explores pedagogical implications for how children read, write, respond to literature, and begin to learn an additional language in the home context. Using a longitudinal ethnographic study, it explores a bilingual child's literacy development over a span of four years from kindergarten to the third grade in a real-life home context in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography
Hulen, Tracey A.; Lipsett, Ann-Bailey – Solution Tree, 2021
Support the growth of your students with meaningful, effective social-emotional learning (SEL). Full of resources, tools, and planning templates, this comprehensive guide provides everything you need to embed SEL practices within your daily work. You'll engage in deep reflection and discover ways to refine instruction, lesson planning, and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Child Development, Neurological Organization, School Culture
Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3-8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Communities of Practice
Peer reviewedOrtega-Sánchez, Delfín, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2022
This book provides theoretical answers, applied methodological models, and didactic experiences that seek to reflect and analyze the potentialities and challenges of the active learning concept in STEAM disciplines and social sciences education. It also contributes to the understanding, intervention, and resolution of contemporary social problems…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Sciences, College Programs, Art Education
Helm, Judy Harris, Ed.; Snider, Karrie A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2019
This book began as a deep discussion among administrators, teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and educational consultants concerned about the critical reduction of play, engaged learning opportunities, and intellectually stimulating experiences in classrooms for toddlers through the primary grades. This group made a pact to organize and…
Descriptors: Play, Toddlers, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Ndlovu, Christopher, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2023
This book brings together a series of papers on education in rural Zimbabwe. It is informed throughout by the generative theory of rurality, which sees rural communities as the most significant agents in solving the challenges they face. Against this theoretical backdrop, the 13 chapters challenge policy makers, researchers and educators to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Academic Achievement
Lana Shklyar Nenide; Kate Sweeney; Gerard Costa; Neal M. Horen; Robert M. Corso; Jordana Ash, Contributor; Lynette Aytch, Contributor; Julie Betchkal, Contributor; Jean Budd, Contributor; Margo Candelaria, Contributor; Corinne G. Catalano, Contributor; Kimberly P. Diamond-Berry, Contributor; Faith Eidson, Contributor; Brandy Fox, Contributor; Keri Giordano, Contributor; Amy Hunter, Contributor; Harleen Hutchinson, Contributor; Nucha Isarowong, Contributor; Ashley McCormick, Contributor; Kelli McDermott, Contributor; Kaitlin Mulcahy, Contributor; Carmen Rosa Noroña, Contributor; Nichole Paradis, Contributor; Rebecca Parlakian, Contributor; Lindsay J. Pearson, Contributor; Thomas Rendon, Contributor; Julia Sayles, Contributor; Jayne Singer, Contributor; Staci Sontoski, Contributor; Kristin Tenney-Blackwell, Contributor; Mary Louise Hemmeter, Contributor – Brookes Publishing Company, 2025
Infant Mental Health (IMH) and the Pyramid Model (PM) are two frameworks with an important common goal: supporting the mental health and social-emotional well-being of infants, young children and their families. For the first time ever, one book integrates these two frameworks to create a more effective, knowledgeable, and responsive early…
Descriptors: Infants, Models, Mental Health, Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Nevills, Pamela – Corwin, 2023
In this update of a bestselling classic, you will learn how to develop children's capacity and will to read. Each sequential chapter is practical, eye-opening, and exactly what you need to engage young learners, plan lessons, partner with parents, and align your PreK-3 classrooms to the science of learning and the science of reading. Gain the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Young Children, Elementary Education
Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey – Pearson, 2022
"Early Childhood Development" celebrates the rich diversity of development among children in all neighborhoods in the United States and around the globe. It examines the physical, social, emotional, linguistic and intellectual characteristics of children from birth through age 8. Within each development domain, it considers the typical…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Diversity, Socioeconomic Background
