Authors: Lesley Koplow, Vivian Gussin Paley
ISBN-13: 9780807748039, ISBN-10: 080774803X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: June 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
The first edition of this indispensable book set the standard for high-quality intervention and prevention programs in early childhood practice. Since its publication, many new forces have impacted the landscape of early childhood education, presenting both great opportunities and great risks for today's emotionally fragile young children. Once again making complex psychological concepts available to classroom teachers, this thorough revision: (1) incorporates important understandings gained since the tragic events of 9/11; (2) addresses many of the challenging issues that confront educators in the current high-pressure climate focused on academic performance; (3) includes recent scientific research that supports the concepts underlying high-quality intervention and prevention in early childhood practice-concepts that were the basis for the first edition of this book; and (4) provides an essential framework to help teachers understand the emotional lives of the young children they serve.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Prologue | ||
1 | Developmental Reality and the Reality of Experience | 3 |
2 | If You're Sad and You Know It: The Value of Children's Affects | 16 |
3 | A Look in the Mirror: Self-Concept in Preschool Children | 27 |
4 | Therapeutic Teacher, Therapeutic Classroom | 45 |
5 | In Their Own Words: The Work of the Language Therapist in Preschool | 64 |
6 | Play Therapy As Early Intervention | 75 |
7 | Therapeutic Technique: The Tools of Preschools That Heal | 89 |
8 | Playing for Keeps: The Value of Open-ended Play | 107 |
9 | Affect Meets Cognition: Building a Curricular Bridge | 123 |
10 | Lesson Plans for Emotional Life | 142 |
11 | Helping Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders | 181 |
12 | The Traumatized Child in Preschool | 202 |
13 | Why Homeless Children Can't Sit Still | 219 |
14 | Families on Site | 233 |
15 | A Staff United: Issues of Joint Domain | 248 |
About the Contributors | 261 | |
Index | 263 |