Early Childhood Education: An Introduction (4th Edition) - Hardcover

Seefeldt, Carol; Barbour, Nita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137481470 ISBN 13: 9780137481477

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

Early Childhood Education: An Introduction is based on the belief that teachers of young children must be highly skilled-knowledgeable about children, their parents, and the community in which they live, as well as the processes of teaching curriculum content. The authors take a comprehensive, integrated approach, offering preservice teachers a complete and current overview of the field. Extensive revisions in each chapter of the Fourth Edition reflect not only current references, but also the most current thinking in the field of early childhood education today.

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From the Publisher:

This text skillfully integrates theory, research, and practice...making it unsurpassed for helping students build an understanding of how children learn, and how best to help them learn. Classic concepts are carefully teamed with creative new ideas. While the focus is on the open approach to teaching--in which both child and teacher contribute and interact--the contributions of many other approaches are presented and discussed as well. Education is shown to be a comprehensive and integrated experience that takes place through a child's play and activity, rather than by teacher-directed, separate subject teaching. Every suggestion, anecdote, and vignette included in Early Childhood Education, Third Edition is based on the observations and experiences of the authors themselves...in early childhood programs at all levels...giving this text a level of authenticity rarely found.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0137481470
• ISBN 13: 9780137481477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 614