Full Description
Learning from the Inside-Out: Child Development and School Choice is the first book of its kind to marry child development, educational psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy. This book goes beyond the now banal conversation of differentiating students based upon gender, race, and class. This book is about the cognitive and social needs of students throughout the developmental span and how to identify schools that meet those needs. In essence, this book rejects the one-size-fits-all discourse of education reform in favor of a focus on individualized educational decision-making. Learning from the Inside-Out acknowledges that contrary to the popular saying, good teaching is not good teaching. What one student needs in a teacher, classroom environment or curricula is not necessarily what another student might need despite demographic similarities. After reading this book, parents and teachers will be empowered and informed when making decisions about how best to educate children.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: School Choice(s)
Part One: Child Development
Chapter Two: The Intersection of Development and Learning
Chapter Three: Temperament, Personality & How They Affect Learning
Chapter Four: The Nature(?) of Intelligence
Chapter Five: Developmental Outliers
Chapter Six: Identity Development...In All of Its Forms
Part Two: How People Learn
Chapter Seven: Constructivism
Chapter Eight: Humanism
Chapter Nine: Socioculturalism
Chapter Ten: Behaviorism
Chapter Eleven: Considerations for Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Students
Conclusion
