Based on sound learning, Building Understanding Together: A constructivist Approach to Early Childhood Education
demonstrates the basic tenets of Piaget's constructivist theory in a comprehensive format. This text shows how
constructivism can be applied to all areas of the curriculum; language arts, science, math, social studies, and
the arts. Chapters include vignettes of classroom examples to help the reader connect the abstract, theoretical
concepts to concrete applications of the concepts.
Benefits:
practical, easy-to-comprehend presentation of constructivist theory, based on the ideas of Jean Piaget and
others
real-life examples are used to support the constructivist approach to teaching style
text is supported with multiple photographic visuals of classrooms, demonstrating the various processes described
in the text
Table of Contents
Understanding Constructivism: Childrens Social
Understandings: Guiding Childrens
Moral Development: Play & Learning: Young Readers & Writers: Making Math Meaningful for Young Children:
Becoming Scientists: The Arts--Basic In a Constructivist Curriculum: Putting It All Together: Epilogue.
