Guiding Children's Social Development and Learning: Theory and Skills

by Marjorie J. Kostelnik, Anne Soderman, Alice Whiren

Updated throughout and featuring an emphasis on NAEYC and other standards, GUIDING CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: THEORY AND SKILLS, Ninth Edition, focuses on ways professionals can help children develop both positive feelings about themselves and social competence. You'll find practical, developmentally appropriate strategies for how to work with children and families from many different backgrounds and circumstances, and in a variety of group settings. With the help of this text, you'll avoid much of the guesswork and frustration that can hinder practitioners' efforts to influence children's social development and behavior. And, you'll obtain a unified framework for decision-making and professional practice that incorporates sound principles of children's development, relationship enhancement, and behavior management. This is a book you'll want to keep and refer to long after you leave the course.

576 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Emily Gardner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book for my college class at CMU! Great book and great resource for Early Childhood Educators!

[Candice Cleniuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the best textbook out of all of the Early Childhood Textbooks I had to read for school. It gave a lot of hands on example along with the theory.