Janet Gonzalez-Mena – författare

50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families, 3rd edition by Janet Gonzalez-Mena is unique in its practical approach to improving teaching skills of early childhood educators by offering the most practical strategies for partnering with families to support, enhance, and maximize the quality of care and education of young children. It presents a plethora of ideas for creating the trust necessary for true collaboration between families and the early childhood professional, and guides on how to develop useful programs that include all families and individuals. Extensively revised, it reflects the most current themes, trends research and ideas in the field today, making it the most diversity-centered text on the market for courses covering diversity and the relationships between teachers and families in early childhood education classrooms and centers.

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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. Child, Family, and Community gives readers the tools they need to work effectively 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 exists–family, school, and community–to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, which divide’s a person's environment into five different levels: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video and assessments.

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Child, Family, and Community illuminates early childhood socialization in a variety of contexts, including the family and community settings. The text serves as a guide to provide the support needed for children and their families, and the guidance and child rearing strategies presented can be put to immediate use.

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This text's primary theme is that of respectful, responsive, and reciprocal adult-infant-toddler interactions. That theme informs the text's framework of Ten Principles, introduced in Chapter 1. The Principles are referred to in every chapter and are reinforced through a recurring Principles in Action feature that demonstrates individual principles. This text features well-established practices related to sensitive care and program planning, designed to promote well-being and identity formation in infants and toddlers. The focus of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers is on action - putting theory into practice. The authors appreciate that even people with considerable understanding of early development may struggle unless they have also learned to apply that theory. Appreciating diversity, cultural and linguistic differences, and inclusion have grown in significance with each edition, and are reflected in positive, non-biased terminology throughout the text and its support resources.