Developing Empathy in the Early Years

A Guide for Practitioners

Helen Garnett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-143-8 (ISBN)

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This accessible, hands-on guide offers practical advice for those working with young children on developing their empathetic practice and fostering empathetic settings. It explains how to use simple teaching methods, games and stories to promote empathetic behaviour in children.

Winner of the Professional Books category in the 2018 Nursery World Awards.

Empathy is an essential part of being human: it allows us to connect with others, which in turn opens doors for us to happiness and success. Though everyone is born with an inherent capacity for empathy, children have the power to grow and re-build their natural supply, and even 'learn' to be more understanding towards others.

This pithy and practical guide provides early years professionals with the tools to make empathy the foundation for their work. It reveals where the roots of empathy lie, how to prioritise it in practice, and how it manifests itself in young developing brains. It includes simple teaching strategies and creative ideas for empathy-building games and activities, enabling you to help children grow up as happier, friendlier, more thoughtful individuals. This book is an essential resource for anyone working with small children.

Helen Garnett is a teacher with thirty years' experience. After running her own preschool for ten years, she became an educational consultant to Riverston Group Ltd and Think Equal. Helen is based near Brighton, England.

Introduction. 1. Empathy in the 21st Century. 2. Affective and Cognitive Empathy. 3. Empathy and Theory of Mind - Jackie Harland. 4. Establishing Empathy in our Pedagogy. 5. Exploring the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Empathy. 6. How Conflict and Conflict Resolution Produce Empathetic Children. 7. The Power of Positive Communication. 8. The Significance of Pretend Play in Developing Empathy. 9. Fostering Empathy through the Process of Narrative - Helen Lumgair. 10. How Social Cognition Creates Engaged Children - Valerie Lovegreen. 11. Empathy and Autism. Afterword.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2017
Co-Autor	Helen Lumgair, Jackie Harland, Valerie Lovegreen
Zusatzinfo	10 b/w
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 215 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-78592-143-6 / 1785921436
ISBN-13	978-1-78592-143-8 / 9781785921438
Zustand	Neuware