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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa B. Fiore (Lesley University, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781138085770ISBN 10: 1138085774 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 01 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. What’s Going On Here? 2. Constructing an Understanding of Grit 3. Constructing an Understanding of Resilience 4. Constructing an Understanding of Motivation 5. Risk Factors: Poverty and the Environment 6. Risk Factors: Race, Gender, and Disability 7. Awareness of Self 8. Responsibility for Others 9.Advocacy and ActionReviewsLisa Fiore's confidence in young children is a powerful antidote to an increasingly toxic educational milieu where young children's ways of being are too often dismissed as soft and non-cognitive. At turns soulful and scientific, this profound-yet-practical call to action invites caregivers, above all, to be in relationship with the growing child. With clarity and compassion, honed from her decades as a psychologist, educator, and observer of human development, Fiore shows us how. -Erika Christakis, author of The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need From Grownups Lisa Fiore's confidence in young children is a powerful antidote to an increasingly toxic educational milieu where young children's ways of being are too often dismissed as soft and non-cognitive. At turns soulful and scientific, this profound-yet-practical call to action invites caregivers, above all, to be in relationship with the growing child. With clarity and compassion, honed from her decades as a psychologist, educator, and observer of human development, Fiore shows us how. -Erika Christakis, author of The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need From Grownups Author InformationLisa B. Fiore, Ph.D., is a professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Child Homelessness Initiative at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |