The importance of being little : what preschoolers really need from grownups /
""Teach your children well. It's easier to sing than do. Erika Christakis wants to foment a revolution in early childhood education, and with this deeply insightful, scientifically grounded, and utterly original book, she may just get her way." --Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling...
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Little learners : the classroom called childhood
- Goldilocks goes to daycare : finding the right zone for learning
- Natural born artists : the creative powers of childhood
- The search for intelligent life : un-standard learning
- Just kidding : the fragmented generation
- Played out : habitat loss and the extinction of play
- Stuffed : navigating the material world
- The secret lives of children : fear, fantasy and the emotional appetite
- Use your words : hearing the language of childhood
- Well connected : the roles grownups play
- Hiding in plain sight : early learning and the American Dream.