Introduction to Early Childhood Education: Preschool Through Primary Grades

by Jo Ann Brewer

Book Overview

This book is a thorough examination of day--to-day aspects of standards-based, developmentally appropriate teaching of young children.

Using student-friendly, readable language, Jo Ann Brewer demonstrates how to integrate developmentally appropriate practice into the early childhood curriculum. The extensive coverage of curriculum, particularly early literacy and language, is a hallmark of this popular book. There is also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205491456
• ISBN13: 9780205491452
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent textbook and resource for educators.

This is an excellent textbook and resource for educators that disusses educational philosophies and teaching styles, classroom set ups, frameworks of elementary education, and notable contributors to learning and teachning styles. This textbook is a great reference for elementary teachers.

Working / Living with kids

This is a great book for anyone who is looking to get into the early education field but also for parents. It explores how kids learn and how early education shapes them. This book helped me pass the Praxis

Still The Best of the Heap But...

...with the renewed emphasis on infant and toddler caregiving, this text might become obsolete. It remains relatively unchanged since the fourth edition. That's good and bad. It's good because an instructor picking this new edition will not need to re-orient himself with the text's format, organization, and layout. Chapter 6 is still about play while Chapters 9-10 cover langauge and literacy. Even the text itself has not changed that much with the exception of an updated idea or two. It's bad because, again, an instructor familiar with the text (like me) can't help but think "Hey! Is Dr. Brewer doing anything to update this book?". Don't get me wrong: it's the best book in the field for preschool to primary education, in my opinion. Babies and 2's, though, are the latest focus on a many state early childhood agendas (or would-be agendas). I hope Dr. Brewer updates her book on this topic. I'm quite curious to see how the next version will turn out.

Excellent Resource For Study For Praxis II

I used this book to study for my Praxis II in early childhood education. It covers every aspect that you need to know in regard to the basic and founding principles and people.I love the way the cite primary resources when talking about Zone of Proximal Development, Maturationist, and Constructivist Models.I passed my Praxis II on the first try with flying colors.

Introduction to Early Childhood Education: Preschool through

This is the first semester I have used this book. It is a fairly comprehensive book for introducing early childhood preservice teachers to EC curriculum. It covers every area of the curriculum with emphasis on the constructivist perspective. Two areas that I find lacking are the index in the book itself and the teacher's supplement. The index is not comprehensive at all, and the suggested test questions in the supplement are often ambiguous and many times not covered in the book.