Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach - Hardcover

Lilian, G. Katz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893915343 ISBN 13: 9780893915346

Publisher: Ablex Pub, 1989

Synopsis

This popular book describes a project approach that provides a context in which all aspects of children's minds can be engaged, challenged, and enriched. It provides an introduction to the principles of the project approach and presents examples that readers can use to trigger the imagination in light of their own teaching preferences and contexts. Drawing on examples from their own experiences with teachers and young children around the world, the authors offer guidelines for employing the project approach under a variety of local and regional conditions and show how children's intellectual development can be enhanced by engaging in project work. Subsequent chapters indicate the complementary nature of informal project work and formal systematic instruction in the total education of young children; provides a detailed review of research on young children's development relevant to principles of practice in early childhood education; and offers a rich store of examples to help teachers in their efforts to try this approach out for themselves.

About this title

Book Description

Presents an introduction to the Project Approach to teaching children from preschool through the primary grades.

About the Author

LILIAN G. KATZ is Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education. She is past President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and is Editor of the first on-line peer reviewed early childhood journal, Early Childhood Research & Practice. Her most recent book, Talks with Teachers of Young Children (Ablex,1995), is a collection of her best known early essays and several recent ones.

SYLVIA C. CHARD is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Alberta. She has conducted workshops and institutes on the Project Approach in North America and overseas and has written two Practical Guides for Teachers published by Scholastic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ablex Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893915343
• ISBN 13: 9780893915346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192