This book is about creating an environment, experiences, interactions, and relationships that allow children (birth to age 5) in center-based and family child care programs to have authentic experiences that will promote their development and learning. To address planning and practice the authors zero in on knowing and respecting the individual child, the group, and working in partnership with families. Rather than focusing on educational activities per se, the emphasis is on paying attention to the child's whole experience in the program. The authors examine what you need to know about children and their families, how to translate that information into plans and experiences, and how to include parents in the process. The authors wrote this book to be a "collaborative encounter with readers".
- ISBN10 0807748439
- ISBN13 9780807748435
- Publish Date 9 January 2008 (first published 29 February 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Teachers' College Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English