The Whole Child: Developmental Education for the Early Years

Written in a warm, engaging style, this book embraces the emergent approach to fostering cognitive skills in children from birth through age five. It provides a complete developmental approach to early childhood education, giving teachers the specific skills they need to teach the whole child-emotionally, socially, physically, creatively, and cognitively. The author believes that physical and emotional health are fundamental to the well-being of children and provides practical methods and materials that address the entire individual, not just curriculum topics. A strength of the book is while it focuses on the five developmental “selves” of children, it places them in the context of contemporary family life and the multicultural world of today. Included at no additional charge with every new copy of this book, the Early Childhood Settings and Approaches DVD consists of 8 video segments filmed in 2005 in various early childhood centers and schools in the Miami, Florida area. Web site links – Offered at the end of each chapter for student exploration.