The importance of being little what preschoolers really need from grownups
"To a four-year-old watching bulldozers at a construction site or chasing butterflies in flight, the world is awash with promise. Little children come into the world hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about any matter. Yet in today's preschool and kindergarten classrooms, lear...
| Main Author: | Christakis, Erika (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Little learners : the classroom called childhood
- Goldilocks goes to daycare : finding the right zone for learning
- Natural born artists : the creative powers of childhood
- The search for intelligent life : un-standard learning
- Just kidding : the fragmented generation
- Played out : habitat loss and the extinction of play
- Stuffed : navigating the material world
- The secret lives of children : fear, fantasy and the emotional appetite
- Use your words : hearing the language of childhood
- Well connected : the roles grownups play
- Hiding in plain sight : early learning and the American Dream.