Overview

This book examines the relationship-promoting approach to child care. The authors use the metaphor of the dance to explain the give and take interactions between caregivers and children that help promote emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Throughout the book, programs from the United States and around the world are examined to highlight features that work. """"Extending the Dance"""" gives early childhood professionals the tools they need to develop an environment that encourages development and attachment.

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9781557668592

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. . . a detailed overview of the elements of infant attachment. The writing of this book firmly grounded in child development theory and is most inviting . . . This book promotes ways for parents and teachers to secure that these positive relationships are established. --Laurie Brasile What's Up Newsletter, Nebraska Early Childhood Training Center (12/08/2009)

Wisely and beautifully shows how depth, quality, and continuity of relationship with babies makes us better 'dancers.' These authors know where school readiness really begins. --J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D.

Wisely and beautifully shows how depth, quality, and continuity of relationship with babies makes us better 'dancers.' These authors know where school readiness really begins. --J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D.

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Helen Raikes is Professor, Youth, Child, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Carolyn Pope Edwards is Professor, Psychology, and Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

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