Understanding Children: An Interview and Observation Guide for Educators - Softcover

Daniels, Denise H.; Beaumont, Lorrie J.; Doolin, Carol A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073378577 ISBN 13: 9780073378572

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2007

Synopsis

This hands-on guide for interviewing and observing children in educational settings is a supplement for child development courses taken by elementary and middle school education majors. It includes a rationale for interviewing and observing children as a way to understand their behavior, learning, and development and makes connections to the work of major developmental theorists and educational researchers. It provides practical tips for incorporating observations and interviews of children into teachers’ busy schedules and discusses the analysis of observational data and its uses for guiding educational practices (e.g., instruction, cooperative grouping, and parent conferences). The guide’s organization follows the topical organization of most child development textbooks.

About this title

From the Publisher

COMPING GUIDELINE:
Comp to everyone you send Meece, Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, Second Edition. Also look for any child development course for elementary and middle school education majors. This supplement will not appeal to child development courses in general, only to those taken by education majors.
BOOK'S POSITION: A practical guide for interviewing and observing children in educational settings designed as a supplementary text for child development courses taken by elementary and middle school education majors.

STRATEGIES: Separate chapters present observational and interview strategies for examining children's behavior, thoughts, and socioemotional domains.
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE: Each chapter integrates implications for educational practice.
SCOPE: Focuses on children ages 4-14, not just young children (under six years old).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0073378577
• ISBN 13: 9780073378572
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 161