Moral classrooms, moral children
Subtitle: creating a constructivist atmosphere in early education
By: Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan
Contributors: Zan, Betty
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Early childhood education series
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780807753408
Subjects: Moral development; Moral education (Early childhood); Constructivism (Education)
Description: This classic bestseller, now updated for today's diverse teaching force and student populations, explores the benefits of sociomoral practices in the classroom. The authors draw on recent research to show how these approaches work with children ages 2-8. They focus on how to establish and maintain a classroom environment that fosters children's intellectual, social, moral, emotional, and personality development. Extending the work of Jean Piaget, the authors advocate for a cooperative approach that contrasts with the coercion and unnecessary control that can be seen in many classrooms serving young children. Practical chapters demonstrate how the constructivist approach can be embedded in a school program by focusing on specific classroom situations and activities, such as resolving conflict, group time, rule making, decision making and voting, social and moral discussions, cooperative alternatives to discipline, and activity time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.