Child, Family, and Community : Family-Centered Early Care and Education, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

With its focus on the socialization of the child, this book helps readers understand how the child develops in a variety of contexts, including the family, community, and early childhood institutions. It gives readers the tools they need to become professionals who can work with both children and parents in ways that support children to be healthy, secure, and socialized members of their families, and eventually society. Guidance strategies are presented, as well as child rearing strategies that parents, parent educators and other professionals and practitioners can put to immediate use. The author relates the many contexts in which the child existsfamily, school, and communityto Bronfenbrenners ecological systems theory.   Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features: Embedded videos. Three or four videos in every chapter followed by reflective questions help to promote classroom discussions. End of Chapter Self-Check Assessments. Embedded assessments with feedback help students assess their understanding while reinforcing learning. Check Your Understanding of chapter content. Embedded assessments with feedback align with, and ask questions about, each Learning Outcome to help students see what they have learned from reading each section.