Creative Activities for Young Children - Softcover

Mayesky, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766825213 ISBN 13: 9780766825215

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

"Creative Activities for Young Children, 7th Edition," contains more major changes than any other edition of this text. Each chapter has been expanded and contains current information on child creativity with an increased emphasis on the elements of art and famous artists. The section on holiday celebrations has been revised, providing many excellent ideas and reasons for incorporating multicultural celebrations into the everyday curriculum in a developmentally appropriate manner. The entire "Seasons" section has been reduced to a single chapter called "Seasons: Aesthetic Awareness." It presents ideas on how to work with children's awareness of the changing world around them via the changing seasons

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0766825213
• ISBN 13: 9780766825215
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540