Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education

by Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134290046. With its focus on the socialization of the child, this book helps readers understand how the child develops in a variety of contexts, including the family, community, and early childhood institutions. Child, Family, and Community gives readers the tools they need to work effectively with both children and parents in ways that support children to be healthy, secure, and socialized members of their families, and eventually society. Guidance strategies are presented, as well as child rearing strategies that parents, parent educators and other professionals and practitioners can put to immediate use. The author relates the many contexts in which the child exists–family, school, and community–to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, which divide’s a person's environment into five different levels: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video and assessments. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText*
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Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Parenting

408 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 2008

Reviews

[Lexie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this textbook for my Child, Family, and Community education class. Learned some great things. However, it is slightly outdated and I wish our teacher had chosen a more updated and interactive book.

[Ariel Jensen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this as part of an Early Childhood Education course. It was an easy read & shared some important information. However, there were many heavily biased arguments that I didn’t feel were necessary to the text.

[Hannah]

a bit outdated in some aspects but ultimately a helpful guide to working with families for the prosperity and success of the children in our care

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars (needs updating)

[Margie Potter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read, not your same ole' boring textbook.

[Mills College Library]

649.1 G643c 2009