Handle With Care: Understanding Children and Teachers : A Field Guide for Parents and Educators

by BROMFIELD RICHARD

• ISBN13: 9780807739945
• ISBN10: 0807739944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Offering a window to the public and private world of the classroom, Harvard Medical School psychologist Richard Bromfield reveals the feelings and motives, fears and joys, the short-sightedness and grand vision, that both children and their teachers bring to school. Touching and insightful, this thoughtful book explores the complex, and sometimes confusing ways, in which the hearts, minds, and psyches of children and teachers (and even parents) mesh, clash, and do everything in between.

Author Biography

Richard Bromfield is a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Precious Goods	1	(7)
Neeful Things	8	(4)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	12	(6)
Our Ears Are Only Human	18	(7)
Teacher Vision	25	(7)
Speaking of Words	32	(8)
Sex Matters	40	(10)
Who's Tending the Melting Pot?	50	(6)
Do Fence Me In	56	(6)
Warming Cold Shoulders	62	(7)
Success and Failure	69	(10)
Dear Dairy	79	(8)
What's the Number for 911?	87	(8)
Once All Children	95	(8)
Perfect Teachers	103	(10)
About the Author	113