Beginnings and Beyond - Hardcover

Gordon, Ann; Williams Browne, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0827384203 ISBN 13: 9780827384200

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Beginnings & Beyond, 5E is an introductory text that focuses on the important concepts and critical foundations in early childhood education, including curriculum, developmentally appropriate practice, multicultural issues, and special needs. It comprehensively covers the entire range of early childhood education -- from infancy through early primary. This new edition emphasizes a multicultural approach to teaching and learning. Students will get all the essentials teaching information and skills they need to become a competent and caring early childhood teacher.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Miles Gordon has been an early childhood professional for more than 45 years as a teacher of young children, a teacher of parents, and a teacher of college students. She has taught in laboratory schools, church-related centers, and private and public preschool and kindergarten programs. Ann taught at the Bing Nursery School, the laboratory school for Stanford University's Department of Psychology, where she was a head teacher and lecturer in the Psychology Department. Ann also served as an adjunct faculty member in several community colleges, teaching the full gamut of early childhood courses. Ann served as executive director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools for 14 years, where more than 1,100 early childhood programs were a part of her network. Ann is semi-retired and a hands-on grandmother of two, through which she brings an enhanced perspective on center-based care and early elementary grades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0827384203
• ISBN 13: 9780827384200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 656