1st Edition

Early Child Care The New Perspectives

By Reginald S. Lourie Copyright 1968
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

395 Pages
by Routledge

Early Child Care is about the very young child--infant, toddler, and early preschool--in today's world. It grew out of a series of conferences sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C., and the Committee on Day Care of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Each of the sponsoring agencies... Read more
I: A New Look at the Young Child: Development and Individuality; 1: Conceptualizing the Early Environment; 2: The First Year of Life: The Infant; 3: Development During the Second Year: The One-Year-Old; 4: The Third Year of Life: The Two-Year-Old; 5: Individualization of Child Care and Its Relation to Environment; part II Translating Child Care Goals into Procedural Terms; 6: Assessment of Infants and Young Children; 7: The Role of Stimulation in Models for Child Development; 8: On Designing the Functional Environment of the Child to Facilitate Behavioral Development; part III Contemporary Programs and Strategics; 9: Poor Families and Their Patterns of Child Care: Some Implications For Service Programs; 10: Group Care of Infants in Other Countries; part IV New Research in the Prevention of Culturally Determined Retardation; 11: The Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.; 12: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center; 13: The Yale Child Study Center Project; 14: The Children's Center in Syracuse, New York; Epilogue Implications for Future Planning

Biography

Stuart Piggott