Creative Activities for Young Children - Softcover

Mayesky, Ph.D. Mary E.

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9780827358867: Creative Activities for Young Children

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ISBN 10: 0827358865 ISBN 13: 9780827358867

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1994

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Following an activity-oriented approach to encouraging creativity, this text is packed with fun and stimulating projects for both the child and the instructor. The fifth edition is up-to-date with an emphasis on multicultural education, antibias curriculum, recycling, ecology and other current issues.

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Mary Mayesky, Ph.D., is a certified preschool, elementary, and secondary teacher. She is a former professor in the Program in Education at Duke University, former director of the Early Childhood Certification Program, and supervisor of student teachers. She has served as assistant director for programs in the Office of Day Services, Department of Human Resources, State of North Carolina. She is also the former principal of the Mary E. Phillips Magnet School in Raleigh, North Carolina, the first licensed extended day magnet in the Southeast. She has served several terms on the North Carolina Day Care Commission and on the Wake County School Board. Dr. Mayesky has worked in Head Start, child care, kindergarten, and YWCA early childhood programs and has taught kindergarten through grade 8 in the public schools. She has written extensively for professional journals and for general-circulation magazines in the areas of child development and curriculum design. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was named Woman of the Year in Education by the North Carolina Academy of the YWCA. Her other honors include being named Outstanding Young Educator by the Duke University Research Council, receiving the American Association of School Administrators Research Award, and being nominated for the Duke University Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.

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