This structured book offers a solid overview of the types of early childhood programs available today, and explores all aspects of their administration. Rooted in the philosophy that thoughtful planning and administration are essential to the success of early childhood programs, it examines how specific program bases affect decisions in all areas of program planning. It is designed to equip readers with the necessary strategies, tactics, and resources to make better judgements in administering early childhood programs. Chapter topics include an overview of these programs and detailed information pertaining to operationalizing and implementing of them—such as considering regulations and establishing policies, leading and managing personnel, planning the physical facility, financing and budgeting, and working with families. For administrators of early childhood programs.

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs (7th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Decker, Celia Anita

Decker, John R.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson College Div

This practical and leading book offers a solid overview of what is involved in carefully planning and running quality early childhood programs. The authors believe that the lack of real quality in today's early childhood programs should be of paramount concern to future administrators, and so have created a book that will aid them in the initial planning of quality programs and serve as a helpful resource once programs are underway. Coverage is organized to illustrate, step-by-step, the way directors of early childhood programs must approach their role; examining, in turn, planning, operationalizing, and implementing high-quality programs for all young children. For administrative personnel at the elementary school level.

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs

Decker Ed.D., Celia Anita

PRENTICE/HALL

Continuing its tradition of excellence, the Tenth Edition of Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs provides the tools you need, as a prospective or in-service administrator, to effectively manage your program. Based on a solid foundation of research, this text provides a wealth of strategies, tools, templates, and resources which make it an indispensible guide.

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs (10th Edition)

Decker, Celia A.

Freeman, Nancy K.

Pearson

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs, Ninth Edition, is build on the conviction that thoughtful planning and administration are essential to the success of early childhood programs. The authors' main priority is to present the rationale for thoughtful planning and administration. The more administrators know about factors influencing quality programs, the better equipped they will be to plan and administer their own high quality programs. With that in mind, this text addresses all aspects of program administration, taking readers from the earliest stages of planning the facility and identifying the program's goals, through program implementation and evaluation. It is a practical and readable resource intended for students of program administaration as well as practicing program administrators. Both groups will find the book to be a resource that will ensure their success in thier chosen field. Each chapter includes practical Applicati

Knopf, Herman

Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ’s Passion and its aftermath, but the martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice visited on the wicked, and broadsheet reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of the body’s desecration. Contributors to this volume interpret pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form not simply as the passing fancies of a cadre of proto-sadists, but also as serving larger social functions within European society. Taking advantage of the frameworks established by scholars such as Samuel Edgerton, Mitchell Merback, and Elaine Scarry (to name but a few), Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 provides an intriguing set of lenses through which to view such imagery and locate it within its wider social, political, and devotional contexts. Though the art works discussed are centuries old, the topics of the essays resonate today as twenty-first-century Western society is still absorbed in thorny debates about the ethics and consequences of the use of force, coercion (including torture), and execution, and about whether it is ever fully acceptable to write social norms on the bodies of those who will not conform.

Arts & Photography

Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi

History & Criticism

Routledge

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