1. This practical guide provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with young children and their carers. 2. This is the first book to provide practical guidance on how to attract young children and their carers into the museum. This will ensure that the book is essential reading for experienced and junior professionals, who are working in museums large and small around the world. 3. There is no competition to this book. Drawing on current neurological research and best practices in early childhood education and development, this guide presents case studies from a variety of different institutions around the world and will be truly unique as a result.

1. This practical guide provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with young children and their carers. 2. This is the first book to provide practical guidance on how to attract young children and their carers into the museum. This will ensure that the book is essential reading for experienced and junior professionals, who are working in museums large and small around the world. 3. There is no competition to this book. Drawing on current neurological research and best practices in early childhood education and development, this guide presents case studies from a variety of different institutions around the world and will be truly unique as a result.

Educators need access to accurate and useful guidance on helping children and families who have been exposed to trauma. Learn the basics of what trauma is, what the effects can look like, and specific types of trauma that may be experienced as well as targeted suggestions for creating trauma-informed classrooms and practices that support children and families. This book brings together how educators can incorporate the community into trauma-aware practices, acknowledges and addresses the needs of educators, and offers solutions for caring for themselves as well as the populations they serve.

The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she finds that. Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, and where children work like adults while still managing to dream. Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.