First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way by Joanne Hendrick

First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way by Joanne Hendrick

Developed for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Education that emphasize emergent curriculum and the project approach to early childhood instruction. The first book of its kind on the market, this timely, hands-on guide examines how real teachers in real schools are working to grasp the principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach and apply them in their every day classroom settings. Written for practicing and future teachers by leading advocates of the Reggio philosophy, it explores the most essential features of this emergent constructivist and Italian curriculum by combining discussions of Reggio concepts with examples of their application in American schools.

Joanne Hendrick is professor emerita of early childhood education from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to raising four children of her own, her practical experience includes working with children at the Stanford Speech and Hearing Clinic, directing a parent-child workshop, working in Head Start, and chairing the early childhood areas at Santa Barbara City College and the University of Oklahoma. She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in disorders of speech and hearing and graduate degrees from the University of California in counseling and early childhood education. She is past president of the California Association for the Education of Young Children. Her current interests include gardening, photography, traveling to exotic places, writing about young children, and enjoying her ten grandchildren. Dr. Patricia Weissman is co-author with Joanne Hendrick of two renowned early childhood college textbooks: The Whole Child: Developmental Education for the First Early Years (Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2006) and Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child (Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2007). She began her early childhood career as a family care provider for two infants. Having found her calling, she studied early childhood education in the master's program at San Francisco State University and received a doctorate of education from the University of San Francisco. During the past 30 years, she has worked as an infant caregiver, preprimary teacher, children's center director, Child Development Associate (CDA) advisor, professor of early childhood education, and a research associate in early childhood development at the Merrill-Palmer Institute of Wayne State University. She was the founding editor of the journal Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Exchange. Dr. Weissman also designed and consulted on the production of the Public Broadcasting Service video series entitled The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years. Dr. Weissman is the mother of two adult children whom she feels turned out quite well.

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ISBN 13	9780134373027
ISBN 10	0134373022
Title	First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way
Author	Joanne Hendrick
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	1997-10-08
Number of pages	253
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