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Young Children's Behaviour: Guidance approaches for early childhood educators 4th Edition
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'The book provides a comprehensive, yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights, enhance children's self-esteem, and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for both students and practitioners who work with children and families.' - Dr Laura McFarland, School of Education, Charles Sturt University
Drawing on the latest research evidence, Young Children's Behaviour outlines the beliefs and values that underpin the guidance approach to managing the behaviours of children from birth to eight years of age. In contrast with rewards-and-punishment systems, guidance believes that children do not need incentives to behave well, but instead need skills. Rather than punishing them for lacking skills, guidance teaches young children self-regulation skills so that they can behave considerately.
The author provides practical strategies that both meet children's needs and safeguard the rights of surrounding adults and children. These methods include listening, being assertive, giving positive instructions, solving problems collaboratively, and coaching children to self-regulate their emotions and impulses. The text also offers advice on responding to many common challenges including separation distress, meltdowns, aggression, and social withdrawal. Finally, the book suggests how educators can provide educational and behavioural support for children with atypical development and describes how to foster effective relationships with parents whose children display challenging behaviours.
Dr Louise Porter powerfully argues that behaviour guidance is the most effective approach to working with young children and reflects the deepest values of early childhood education and care.
- ISBN-101760113956
- ISBN-13978-1760113957
- Edition4th
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication dateJanuary 27, 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 1.2 x 9 inches
- Print length504 pages
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About the Author
An adjunct senior lecturer at Flinders University, Dr Louise Porter is a child psychologist with 35 years' experience of working with children. A sought-after international speaker, she is also the author of many books including A Comprehensive Guide to Classroom Management, Parental Guidance Recommended and Gifted Young Children.
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- Publisher : Routledge; 4th edition (January 27, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 504 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1760113956
- ISBN-13 : 978-1760113957
- Item Weight : 1.85 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 1.2 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,539,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,556 in Psychology (Books)
- #12,005 in Medical General Psychology
- #13,498 in Behavioral Sciences (Books)
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About the author
Louise Porter (PhD, MA Hons, MGiftedEd, DipEd, BA, BIntStuds) is an Australian child psychologist with 30 years’ experience in private practice consulting with children, their parents, teachers and other professionals to resolve children’s emotional, social or behavioural issues. Having worked for 10 years in disability and mainstream settings, she then taught for 13 years at University and today conducts professional development and parent information sessions across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. She has written many books, including 'Children are people too: A parent's guide to young children's behaviour' plus professional titles including 'Young children’s behaviour: Practical approaches for caregivers and teachers', 'Student behaviour: Theory and practice for teachers', 'Gifted young children', and 'Teacher-parent collaboration'. She has produced two DVDs, 'Guiding children's behaviour' and 'Gifted children: Meeting their needs'. She has also written a parenting program (A guidance approach to discipline), for which there is a manual for group leaders and a workbook for participants. For more information about these titles and to download articles concerning children, their behaviour and development, consult her website: www.louiseporter.com.au
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She also doesn't like to miss out on a chance to single out and shame Western styles of education, while advocating that we shouldn't single out and shame people - and as she points out, children are people.
Furthermore, she has rehashed Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a tree of needs that I found unstructured and vague.
There is alot of information and I'm only a third of the way in. You have to separate the wheat from the chaff, which is tiring.
I hope it gets better, but so far my expectations have not been met.
Aside from Porter's questionable beliefs, the online version of this book is glitched with certain areas of the text missing.