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Thinking Critically about Environments for Young Children: Bridging Theory and Practice

Thinking Critically about Environments for Young Children: Bridging Theory and Practice

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Series: Early Childhood Education

General EducationSpecial Education

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ISBN10: 0807755451
ISBN13: 9780807755457
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Jun 20 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This comprehensive book will help early childhood practitioners consider the why and how of setting up classrooms and other learning spaces to create environments that are most conducive to child development. Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work when creating learning environments for young children. There are copious examples from practice, lessons learned, and illustrations and photographs of key aspects of the environments they discuss. Organized into three parts, this essential text addresses:

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