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50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families, 3rd edition by Janet Gonzalez-Mena is unique in its practical approach to improving teaching skills of early childhood educators by offering the most practical strategies for partnering with families to support, enhance, and maximize the quality of care and education of young children. It presents a plethora of ideas for creating the trust necessary for true collaboration between families and the early childhood professional, and guides on how to develop useful programs that include all families and individuals. Extensively revised, it reflects the most current themes, trends research and ideas in the field today, making it the most diversity-centered text on the market for courses covering diversity and the relationships between teachers and families in early childhood education classrooms and centers.
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50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families offers early childhood educators a unique and truly diverse perspective with the most practical strategies for partnering with families to support, enhance, and maximize the quality of care and education of young children. With a plethora of ideas for creating the trust necessary for true collaboration between families and the early childhood professional, the author guides readers on how to develop useful programs that include all families and individuals. Extensively revised, it reflects the most current themes, trends, research and ideas in the field today, making it the most diversity-centered text on the market for courses covering diversity and the relationships between teachers and families in early childhood education classrooms and centers.
Notable updates to this edition include:
· Greater attention to diversity in every chapter
· Expanded descriptions of the many different types of families readers will likely work with, including military families and grandparents raising their grandchildren
· Current information on the growing influence all types of media have on young children–even infants and toddler
· Added attention to the influence of economic hardship on children and families, as more families now live in poverty
· Changes and additions in What Teachers Can Do sections
· Many new stories, examples, and vignettes that apply the information to real life
· More on self-reflection, home visits, and transitions
· Revisions to most of the chapters reflect the most current themes, trends, research, and ideas in the field today.
Also from Janet Gonzalez-Mena:
0132657147 - Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education, 6/e - ©2013
About the Author
Janet Gonzalez-Mena is Retired Faculty in Child and Family Studies, Napa Valley College, Napa California, where for 15 years she was on the full-time faculty until her retirement in 1998. Not only has she taught in the California community college system for 36 years, but also Gonzalez-Mena’s career includes being a preschool teacher in a bilingual program, child care director, and coordinator of a pilot program of therapeutic child care for abused and neglected children. A prolific author, her textbook achievements include: Child, Family, and Community, 6th ed. (Pearson, 2013); Infants, Toddlers and Caregivers, 9th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2012); Foundations of Early Childhood Education: Teaching Children in a Diverse Society, 6th ed., (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming); and Diversity in Early Care and Education: Honoring Differences, 4th ed. (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2008). Janet also co-authored Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Introduction for Teachers of Infants and Toddlers (National Association for Education of Young Children, 2011). Currently self-employed as a consultant in early care and education, she also finds the time to write for Young Children and Exchange, and occasionally for publications in Canada and New Zealand.
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- PublisherPearson
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0133090272
- ISBN 13 9780133090277
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number3
- Number of pages176
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