Laura E Berk: 2 books
Awakening Children's Minds
How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Parents and teachers today face a swirl of conflicting theories about child rearing and educational practice. Indeed, current guides are contradictory, oversimplified, and at odds with current scientific knowledge. Now, in Awakening Children's Minds, Laura Berk cuts through the confusion of competing...
A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool
Applying the Scientific Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief...