Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education

Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education

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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. -- Provided by publisher

Keywords

Moral education (Early childhood); Constructivism (Education); Moral development

Document Type

Book

ISBN

9780807753408

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Teachers College Press

City

New York, NY

Department

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Object Description

x, 276 p. ; 23 cm.

Language

en

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