Moral Classrooms, Moral Children : Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Childhood Paperback / softback

by Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan

Part of the Early Childhood Education Series series

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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.