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Item Nr: B 96554 Title: Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
Grade Lvl: T Author: Christakis, Erika
Length: 400 Prod/Pub: Viking
Copyright: 2016 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  A guide to helping young children learn by looking at the world from their viewpoints. The author challenges the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child's eye view of the learning environment. She offers real-life solutions to real-life issues, with nuance and direction that takes one beyond the usual prescriptions for fewer tests, more play. She looks at children's use of language, their artistic expressions, the way their imaginations grow, and how they build deep emotional bonds to stretch the boundaries of their small worlds.

  Subjects:
  1317 - CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  815 - EARLY CHILDHOOD
  1218 - LEARNING, PSYCHOLOGY OF
  869 - PLAY
  116 - PRESCHOOL/PRESCHOOLERS
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA