The Child's Curriculum - Working with the Natural Values of Young Children (Paperback)

All children are born with emotional talent. But if left untended, those talents can wane during the first five years of life. Children are sensitive and social beings from birth, exhibiting an innate enthusiasm for communication that must be satisfied for healthy development. If their feelings, agency, and motivations are met with affection, if they are respected and nurtured, then children will respond creatively and that inherent desire for companionship will flourish. However, with the recent changes in political and educational systems, early years education has seen a decline in focus on the emotional wellbeing of children and the development of their creativity. Those systems need to adapt if educators are to bring out the best in our future generations. By nurturing creativity and emotional wellbeing in the first five years of life, long term social benefits can be wrought. The book focusses on children's readiness for learning. It addresses the natural joy explicit in children's early conversations and engagement with music and their development through play with both adults and other children. This kind of education allows children to develop their bodies and skills, accept and understand their feelings, build relationships, and progress both their imagination and their problem solving skills. In this way, play with others drives development. With contributors from the fields of psychological, educational, and political spheres, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned for the future of our children.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2018
Editors:	Colwyn Trevarthen (Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology & Honorary Research Fellow in Psychology) • Jonathan Delafield-Butt (Reader in Child Development and Director of the Laboratory for Innovation in Autism) • Aline-Wendy Dunlop (Emeritus Professor)
Dimensions:	246 x 172 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-874710-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
LSN:	0-19-874710-1
Barcode:	9780198747109

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