Ready for learning and ready for life : bridging the disconnects between research and practice / Betsy Gunzelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunzelmann, Betsy, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readiness for school.

Educational psychology.

Physical Description:

xi, 125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Summary:

Many of our children are poorly prepared to face the challenges of school and growing up in our complex society. The term readiness is misrepresented in the Held of education; this hook implies a different type of readiness involving a process that can be taught and nurtured within each child. Going beyond what our schools typically assess to determine readiness to attend school, which is often based upon age, this book addresses the synergistic aspects of readiness, learning, and adaptation that allow children to be optimally ready to learn and capable of handing challenges and transitions. This more holistic and interactive understanding of readiness involves not only the typical physical development, but also psychological aspects including the cognitive, emotional, spiritual, behavioral, and environmental pieces. The goal of this book is to provide the necessary lens through which we can see what is really hindering many children in schools today, along with possible approaches and interventions typically not seen as educational in nature, but what may be just the needed prescription for our filing youth. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Understanding the Concept of Being Ready and the Disconnects 1

1 What Is Being Ready All About? 3

2 The Paradoxes and Disconnects 9

3 Catalysts to Our Understanding: Theoretical and Research Foundations

4 A Current Understanding of Development for Readiness 23

Part II The Synergistic Readiness 29

5 The Physical Piece 31

6 The Cognitive Piece 37

7 The Emotional Piece 41

8 The Core Piece 47

9 The Behavioral Piece 53

10 The Environmental Piece 57

11 The Synergistic Process 63

Part III The Interventions and Discussions: Research-Based Interventions to Promote Readiness for Learning and for Life-the Paradoxes Can Be Resolved and Gaps Can Be Bridged! 69

12 Getting Ready Physically; Predominantly Physically Based Interventions 71

13 Getting Ready Cognitively: Mainly Cognitive Interventions 79

14 Getting Ready Emotionally: Largely Emotional-Based Interventions 83

15 Getting Ready with Our Center: Chiefly Core Interventions 91

16 Getting Ready Behaviorally: Generally Behavioral Interventions 97

17 Getting Ready Environmentally: Essentially Environmental Interventions 101

Part IV Bringing It All Together and Hope for the Future 107

18 Ready for Learning and Ready for Life in a Nutshell 109

19 So Where Do We Go From Here??? 113.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-121).

ISBN:

1475815409

9781475815405

9781475815412

1475815417

OCLC:

953630642