The Learning Child

by COHEN, DOROTHY

• ISBN13: 9780805208566
• ISBN10: 0805208569
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1988-04-12
• Publisher: Schocken
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Summary

Hailed as a classic in developmental psychology, The Learning Child is as relevant today as when first published in 1972, if not more so. Drawing on the findings of psychologists like Piaget, and on her own experiences teaching child development at New York's Bank Street College, Cohen explores the crucial links between learning and the successive stages of childhood, and shows parents and teachers how to turn a child's natural instinct for inquiry into a talent for learning that will last a lifetime. Book jacket.

Author Biography

DOROTHY COHEN was a brilliant teacher, a prolific writer, and an internationally known educator whose books The Learning Child, Kindergarten and Early Schooling, and, with Virginia Stern, Observing and Recording the Behaviour of Young Children are classics in the fields of child development and education. She traveled widely in the United States and abroad and was a frequent public speaker on behalf of the political and social principles that were her life-long passion.

Dr. Cohen was a Bank Street student in the 1930s, then studied at Teacher's College and New York University, where she received her doctorate. She returned to Bank Street College in the 1960s as a member of the graduate faculty, advising, teaching, and writing until her death in 1979.

Throughout her professional career Dorothy Cohen inspired and encouraged generations of graduate students, teachers, parents, daycare workers, and colleagues to participate with her in broadening the notion of education, to, in her own words, "safeguard the humanness of our children."

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
What Does Innovative Mean?	p. 3
What Changes Do We Need?	p. 27
Developmental Aspects of Five-Year-Olds, Including Learning Style	p. 50
Kindergarten: Underpinning for Academic Learning	p. 72
Kindergarten and the Parent	p. 98
Developmental Aspects of Sixes and Sevens	p. 119
Intellectual Life in the Primary Grades	p. 144
The Meaning of the Skills: I. Reading	p. 165
The Meaning of the Skills: II. Writing	p. 188
The Meaning of the Skills: III. Mathematics	p. 195
Eight to Eleven: The Intermediate Years	p. 205
How Much Can They Learn?	p. 240
What Shall They Learn in the Intermediate Grades?	p. 257
Parent and Child During the Intermediate Years	p. 297
Beyond the Home to School and Community	p. 329
Index	p. 351
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