FCFC 265- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
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Children seen as competent and valuable: project approach, create experiences for children that last over time that children can come back to. The idea is to draw the kids in to the activities. (be creative in the way you set out toys on a table: 4 common themes, natural. Impact of early experience: frist 3 years of brain development are critical, ca(cid:374)"t just go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k i(cid:374) a fi(cid:454) it later, research methods and tools, much more sophisticated now. Industrial revolution: from farms to cities, great depression, economic hardship to greatest effects on infants and toddlers, baby boom, following www2 period of prosperity, dr. benjamin spock: the common sense book of baby and child. Care: significant impact on caucasian families but not african- American or migrant families: project head-start (1964, preschool age children of low income families, early head start: birth to age 3 to help kids behind before preschool, (cid:862)ta(cid:271)ula rasa(cid:863) or (cid:862)bla(cid:374)k late(cid:863)