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Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education, Fifth Edition

Marjorie V. Fields, University of Alaska Southeast

Nancy J. Perry,

Debby M. Fields

Shows how children can learn personal responsibility and judge right and wrong for themselves. 

With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and Primary Education explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, and includes two chapters on guiding children with special needs.  This book more clearly links guidance techniques to the causes of behavior than any other on the market. It features prevention of behavior problems through developmentally appropriate practices and meeting children’s physical and emotional needs.

Features  

• Addresses common childhood behavior problems and links each cause to a specific guidance approach that is explained and described.
• Uses vignettes and examples of guidance and discipline issues throughout the book and helps students understand the research and theory base behind them.
• Concludes each chapter with For Further Thought activities and Recommended Readings that provide useful classroom activities and appropriate problem solving practices for students. 

New to this Edition 

*          Completely revised chapter on Vulnerable Children (Chapter 14) deals with how poverty, violence, loss, and other risk factors affect children's social emotional development.

*          Provides a new section on the use of early learning guidelines to promote social emotional development (Chapter 15).

*          Thoroughly revised Chapter 13 on Children with Diverse Abilities, focuses on children who require individualized discipline approaches. The chapter distinguishes discipline issues from developmental delays and health issues.

*          Offers an expanded section on design of the physical environment (Chapter 4).

*          Expands the discussion of observation for discovering the cause of behavior problems and helps students apply the principle of focusing on the causes of behavior problems.  

*          Integrated videos and assignable exercises on MyEducationLab put guidance principles in context and students see guidance strategies applied.

*          Each chapter is linked to NAEYC Standards for Professional Preparation.

New for the Instructor 

• Expanded Online Instructor’s Manual offers guiding questions, teaching tips, and suggestions for in-class activities to increase students’ understanding of concepts.
• Online Test Bank offers essay, multiple choice, and true/false questions.
• Online PowerPoint Slides highlight important concepts in each chapter.

Dr. Marjorie Fields has been teaching in the field of early childhood education for over 30 years. She first taught kindergarten, then first grade, then began teaching teachers. Thanks to her own children, she was also actively involved in cooperative preschools and various types of child care.

She has a doctorate in early childhood education with research in parent involvement. She is active in early childhood professional organizations at the national and local levels and has served as vice-president of the National Association of Early Childhood Educators. She has also served on the national governing board for the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She has published extensively in the field of emergent literacy as well as child guidance.

This book is the outgrowth of over 25 years' reading and thinking in conjunction with developing and teaching an early discipline course. Dr. Fields credits her two sons with helping her learn what is most important about child guidance and discipline.

Cindy Boesser has a wide experience in the field of early childhood education. She held a variety of positions in a private, nonprofit preschool/child care-center: aide, teacher, co-director, and program administrator. She has also worked in a university-sponsored child-care center and as a teacher's aide in public school. She ran a quality child-care program in her home for five years that was the first in her region to receive NAFCC Accreditation. She currently works for the Public Library Youth Services, sharing her love for children's literature through story-times and class visits.