Constructive Guidance and Discipline:Preschool and Primary Education - Softcover

Understanding how children grow, learn, and think helps adults and children live more harmoniously together. This thorough revision of Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education continues to provide the information to help children to become happy, responsible, and productive people. With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, the book explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes three chapters on guiding children with special physical or emotional needs, learning disabilities, or children who are at risk due to poverty, violence, or loss. The book is practical in its approach and focuses on how many effective early childhood education practices can prevent or alleviate many common discipline problems. The authors reason that rewards and punishments do not work and that children must learn to make their own decisions based on their own values and convictions. Children are profoundly influenced by the adults in their lives. This book guides teachers and parents to an understanding of how to have a positive impact on their children's lives. New To This Edition: NEW! Includes a new chapter on Children with Diverse Abilities (Chapter 13)-Focuses on the small percentage of children who require individualized discipline approaches. Helps sort out discipline issues from developmental delays and mental health issues. NEW! Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14)-This chapter deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children's social emotional development. NEW! Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15.) NEW! Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4.) NEW! Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems-Helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems. NEW! Incorporates new content on the importance of adult-child relationships and classroom communities. NEW! Updates the research on emotion regulation, emotional development, empathy, attachment, and the impact of temperament as they relate to child behavior and guidance. This information is essential to understanding child behavior and offering appropriate guidance. NEW! Adds new chapter introductions outlining the main points of each chapter-Links them to the NAEYC teacher education standards. NEW! Includes new video vignettes stimulate class discussion and help students think through guidance principles in context-Lets them see guidance principles in action.

Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education, Fifth Edition

Marjorie V. Fields, University of Alaska Southeast

Nancy J. Perry,

Debby M. Fields

Shows how children can learn personal responsibility and judge right and wrong for themselves.

With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes two chapters on guiding children with special needs. This book more clearly links guidance techniques to the causes of behavior than any other on the market. It features prevention of behavior problems through developmentally appropriate practices and meeting children’s physical and emotional needs.

Features

• Addresses common childhood behavior problems and links each cause to a specific guidance approach that is explained and described.
• Uses vignettes and examples of guidance and discipline issues throughout the book and helps students understand the research and theory base behind them.
• Concludes each chapter with For Further Thought activities and Recommended Readings that provide useful classroom activities and appropriate problem solving practices for students.

New to this Edition

* Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14) deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children's social emotional development.

* Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15).

* Thoroughly revised Chapter 13 on Children with Diverse Abilities, focuses on children who require individualized discipline approaches. The chapter distinguishes discipline issues from developmental delays and health issues.

* Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4).

* Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems and helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems.

* Integrated videos and assignable exercises on MyEducationLab put guidance principles in context and students see guidance strategies applied.

* Each chapter is linked to NAEYC Standards for Professional Preparation.

New for the Instructor

• Expanded Online Instructor’s Manual offers guiding questions, teaching tips, and suggestions for in-class activities to increase students’ understanding of concepts.
• Online Test Bank offers essay, multiple choice, and true/false questions.
• Online PowerPoint Slides highlight important concepts in each chapter.