Developing constructivist early childhood curriculum :  practical principles and activities / 
Rheta DeVries ... [et al.]. 
 - New York :  Teachers College Press,  c2002. 
 - ix, 250 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Early childhood education series .
 - Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Play in the early education curriculum : four interpretations /  What is constructivist education? Definition and principles of teaching /  Assessing and documenting learning in constructivist classrooms /  Casting shadows /  Exploring the art and science of musical sounds /  Cooking transformations /  Rheta DeVries --  Rheta DeVries --  Rebecca Edmiaston --  Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan, Rebecca Edmiaston, and Karen Wohlwend --  Carolyn Hildebrandt and Betty Zan --  Betty Zan, Rebecca Edmiaston, and Christina Sales.  Experimenting with draining and movement of water in tubes /  Developing geometric reasoning using pattern blocks /  Using group games to teach mathematics /  Variations on a checkers theme /  Rheta DeVries, Hyang Lim Kwak, and Christina Sales --  Christina Sales and Carolyn Hildebrandt --  Carolyn Hildebrandt and Betty Zan --  Betty Zan. 
<br/><br/> Provides a constructivist interpretation of developmentally appropriate curriculum in early childhood education. Rheta DeVries, one of the founders of constructivist early education, and her colleagues provide the theoretical rationale and practical advice for conducting specific activities in the classroom. Descriptive vignettes are used to show how children's reasoning and teacher interventions are transformed in the course of extended experience with a physical phenomenon or group game. Throughout the book, constructivist teaching is illustrated and contrasted with the approaches found in three other classroom types. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807741213 (cloth) 0807741205 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001026689 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Early childhood education--Curricula--United States.<br/>Constructivism (Education)--United States.<br/>???�ducation de la premir��?�e enfance--Programmes d't��?�udes.--???�tats-Unis<br/>Constructivisme (???�ducation)--???�tats-Unis.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 1139.4  / .D49 2002