Awakening Children's Minds
How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 April 2004
- ISBN 9780195171556
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 155x239x22 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first book to bring to a general audience, in lucid prose richly laced with examples, truly state-of-the-art thinking about child rearing and early education.
MoreLong description:
This book's central message is that parent and teachers contribute profoundly to the development of competent, caring, well-adjusted children. In particular, it argues that adult-child communication in shared activites is the wellspring of psychological development. These dialogues enhance language skills, reasoning ability, problem-solving strategies, the capacity to bring action under the control of thought, and the child's cultural and moral values. The author explains how children weave the voices of more expert cultural members into dialogues with themselves. She also offers concrete suggestions for creating and evaluating quality educational environments - at home, in child care, in preschool, and in primary school - and addresses the unique challenges of helping children with special needs. Parents, Berk writes, need a consistent way of thinking about their role in children's lives, one that can guide them in making effective child-rearing decisions. Awakening Children's Minds gives us the basic guidance we need to raise caring, thoughtful, intelligent children.
Awakening Children's Minds provides a highly readable introduction to teaching and learning from a socio-cultural perspective. The reader is encouraged to reflect on personal experiences and observations of young children's learning and how to support their development as learners. s
Table of Contents:
A New View of Child Development
The Social Origins of Mental Life
Why Children Talk to Themselves
Learning Through Make-Believe Play
Helping Children with Deficits and Disabilities
Learning in Classrooms
The Child in Contemporary Culture
Conclusion: A Vision for Parenting and Educational Practice
