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(More customer reviews)This textbook is required reading for my Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Infants and Toddlers class. It's is well written, easy to read, gives many examples of quality care, and you're able to access videos that complement the teaching. I recommend it to parents who want to learn about how to "respect your baby" in a whole new light. I also recommend it to child care centers because it's easy to distracted in the busyness of everyday work and lose sight of communicating respect to children.
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Combining a child-centered philosophy with problem-solving strategies, and a thorough discussion of diversity, Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers serves as an ideal introduction to curriculum and care for infants and toddlers. The approach to caregiving that underlies the text is based on Magda Gerber's philosophy combined with a bold new approach to the extensive 62 years of research done by her late colleague, Emmi Pikler.Focusing on the concept of respect in child care, both pioneers based their curriculum around responding to each individual child's needs in a warm and sensitive manner. Stressing the need for physical and social growth through planned and unplanned learning exercises, Gerber and Pikler's approach to childcare aims to develop the mental, physical, and emotional progress of each child.In addition to the new approach to Pikler's research, the new edition features expanded discussions on race, natural environments and exercise for children. Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers applies this approach in a practical and engaging way for students and faculty in introductory early childhood courses.
