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Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight (6th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Fields, Marjorie V.

Fields, Deborah M.

Patricia A Meritt

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

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<li> Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. </li>
<li> Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* </li>
<li> Affordable. The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone or with a loose-leaf version of the text for 40-65% less than a print bound book. </li> </ul>
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Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight Plus Video-Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (6th Edition)

Meritt, Patricia A.

NOTE: Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for the Enhanced Pearson eText may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase. T his access code card provides access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. In the Sixth Edition of this highly respected text, the authors provide information about helping children become confident, caring, responsible, and productive people in a strong and thoughtful way. This edition now includes content and examples on infants and toddlers, making the book relevant to teachers of children from birth through age eight. All of the authors’ recommendations about guidance approaches are based on the sound research of Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler and Carl Roger. These insightful recommendations, for novice and seasoned educators alike, further acknowledge the uniqueness of each child, including how individual temperaments and experiences affect behavior. The authors encourage their readers to treat the root cause of behavior problems rather than just the symptoms in order to obtain lasting results. In doing so, they continually present a clear discussion of child development and developmentally appropriate practices as they relate to the causes of children’s behavior. Unique in providing a unified theory base for analyzing guidance and discipline, the text offers a consistent view of external versus internal motivation, explaining why rewards are as damaging as punishment, and why evaluative praise undermines children’s learning as well as their self-confidence. Keenly focused on developmental theory and constructivism, this celebrated resource explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous infant/toddler, preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, includes two full chapters devoted to challenges stemming from children with special physical or emotional needs, learning disabilities, or risk factors due to poverty, violence, or loss, and many summary boxes and graphic aids to prepare students in becoming experts in guiding young children. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* This access code card provides access to the new Enhanced Pearson eText, a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: <ul>
<li> Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. </li>
<li> Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* </li>
<li> Affordable. Experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText for 40-65% less than a print bound book. </li> </ul>
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Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight, Video-Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card (6th Edition)

Understanding how children grow, learn, and think helps adults and children live more harmoniously together. This thorough revision of Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education continues to provide the information to help children to become happy, responsible, and productive people. With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, the book explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes three chapters on guiding children with special physical or emotional needs, learning disabilities, or children who are at risk due to poverty, violence, or loss. The book is practical in its approach and focuses on how many effective early childhood education practices can prevent or alleviate many common discipline problems. The authors reason that rewards and punishments do not work and that children must learn to make their own decisions based on their own values and convictions. Children are profoundly influenced by the adults in their lives. This book guides teachers and parents to an understanding of how to have a positive impact on their children’s lives. New To This Edition: NEW! Includes a new chapter on Children with Diverse Abilities (Chapter 13)–Focuses on the small percentage of children who require individualized discipline approaches. <ul>
<li> Helps sort out discipline issues from developmental delays and mental health issues. </li> </ul>
 NEW! Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14)–This chapter deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children’s social emotional development. NEW! Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15.) NEW! Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4.) NEW! Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems–Helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems. NEW! Incorporates new content on the importance of adult-child relationships and classroom communities. NEW! Updates the research on emotion regulation, emotional development, empathy, attachment, and the impact of temperament as they relate to child behavior and guidance. <ul>
<li> This information is essential to understanding child behavior and offering appropriate guidance. </li> </ul>
 NEW! Adds new chapter introductions outlining the main points of each chapter–Links them to the NAEYC teacher education standards. NEW! Includes new video vignettes stimulate class discussion and help students think through guidance principles in context–Lets them see guidance principles in action.

Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education (5th Edition)

Perry, Nancy

Shows how children can learn personal responsibility and judge right and wrong for themselves. With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes three chapters on guiding children with special needs. This book more clearly links guidance techniques to the causes of behavior than any other on the market and provides a clear discussion of childhood development and developmentally appropriate practices. Features <ul>
<li> Addresses common childhood behavior problems and links each cause to a specific guidance approach that is explained and described. </li>
<li> Uses vignettes and examples of guidance and discipline issues throughout the book and helps students understand the research and theory base behind them. </li>
<li> Concludes each chapter with For Further Thought activities and Recommended readings that provide useful classroom activities and appropriate problem solving practices for students. </li> </ul>
 New to this Edition <ul>
<li> MyEducationLab has assignable online video-based exercises and refers students to the site via margin notes </li>
<li> Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14) deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children’s social emotional development. </li>
<li> Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15.) </li>
<li> Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4.) </li>
<li> Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems and helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems. </li> </ul>
 New for the Instructor <ul>
<li> Expanded Instructor’s Manual offers overviews of each chapter, suggestions for in-class activities to increase students’ understanding of concepts, as well as test banks and course management with a variety of assessment types. </li>
<li> PowerPoint slides highlight important concepts in each chapter. </li> </ul>

Constructive Guidance And Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education (with MyEducationLab) (5th Edition)