From Neurons to Neighborhoods:: The Science of Early Childhood Development
A Nonfiction, Psychology, Education book. Yawn. OK, it's actually a pretty good book, but I read similar material year after year. This is also rather...
How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media.How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues.The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more.Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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- Pages: 612 pages
- ISBN: 9780309069885 / 309069882
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so far I've learned about the libraries overdue book fees Yawn. OK, it's actually a pretty good book, but I read similar material year after year. This is also rather dated. There are better books concerning early neurodevelopment. Still, you may want to check it out: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=... This is definitely a dense text, not intended for the casual or lay reader with an interest in child development, but definitely worth reading for professionals and stake holders in early childhood education, special education, social work and psychology. It is a bit of a chore to get through, because of its density and much of the...
