Defending Childhood: Keeping the Promise of Early Education

By: Linda Darling-Hammond

Book Overview

This book brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Each chapter presents experiences and suggestions from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807753106
• ISBN13: 9780807753101
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"