Awakening Children's Minds

How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference

Laura E Berk author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:29th Apr '04

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Awakening Children's Minds cover

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

ISBN: 9780195171556

Dimensions: 155mm x 239mm x 23mm

Weight: 408g

320 pages