Techniques for Teaching Young Children

Techniques for Teaching Yound Children: Choices in Theory and Practice is practical and inspirational guide to the best of curent teaching practice in early childhood education. This authoritative text describes 26 techniques for teaching young children. Some are simple and famaliar (describing and listening), while others offer new theoretical perspectives (Vygotskian scaffolding and post structuralist discourse analysis). Other important approaches to teaching discussed include those of the Reggio Emilia Approach, the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum and Montessori's and Steiner's educational theories.