Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy: Spiritual Development in Young Children. This item is unavailable.Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy: Spiritual Development in Young Children

Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy offers a series of thoughtful practices for child care providers to nurture a child’s spiritual development—an extension of social-emotional learning. The book helps educators introduce young children to a system that begins with love and leads to a strong sense of self, ignites wonder and learning, and allows for the emergence of empathy that leads to personal wholeness. You can provide support and strengthen children’s self-awareness through deep connections, increased social awareness, and pro-social behaviors, such as kindness, caring, empathy, and reverence. Spiritual development moments help children to grow, explore, play, and ask big questions.

Dr. Deborah Schein has been an early childhood educator since 1972. She has a BS in psychology from the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara, a master's degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction from Cleveland State University, and a PhD in early childhood education from Walden University. Deborah currently works as an educational consultant and teaches online early childhood graduate courses Champlain College. She offers workshops across the country for national movements and participates in webinars about the connection between spiritual development and nature education for young children. She now lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Dr. Deborah Schein has been an early childhood educator since 1972. She has a BS in psychology from the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara, a master’s degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction from Cleveland State University, and a PhD in early childhood education from Walden University. Deborah currently works as an educational consultant and teaches online early childhood graduate courses Champlain College. She offers workshops across the country for national movements and participates in webinars about the connection between spiritual development and nature education for young children. With Mary S. Rivkin, Schein is a coauthor of The Great Outdoors: Advocating for Natural Spaces for Young Children, Revised Edition (NAEYC, 2014) and What’s Jewish about Butterflies: 36 Dynamic, Engaging Lessons for the Early Childhood Classroom, with Maxine Segal Handelman (A.R.E. Publishing, 2004). Schein is a wife, mother, and grandmother who is passionate about play, nature, and young children. She now lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.