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Author : Paul E. McGhee
Release : 2002-07-01
Genre : Developmental psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding and Promoting the Development of Children's Humor by : Paul E. McGhee
Download or read book Understanding and Promoting the Development of Children's Humor written by Paul E. McGhee. This book was released on 2002-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul E Mcghee
Release : 2014-04-08
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 927/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humor and Children's Development by : Paul E Mcghee
Download or read book Humor and Children's Development written by Paul E Mcghee. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book that is geared toward practical applications of humor with children. Health care professionals, counselors, social workers, students, and parents will find this to be a fascinating, instructive volume that illustrates how to effectively incorporate humor into children’s lives to produce enormously positive results. With a strong “how to” focus, this enlightening volume addresses the use of humor in the classroom--to promote learning and to foster higher levels of creative thinking. Experts who are on the cutting edge of humor and its benefits for children examine the importance of humor in fostering social and emotional development and in adapting to stressful situations. And for the scholarly reader, Humor and Children’s Development documents the major research trends focusing on humor and its development. This excellent resource--certain to spark further debate and research--offers an unrivaled opportunity to further understand children’s behavior and development. Humor and Children’s Development was featured in the February 1990 issue of Working Mother magazine in article titled “Let Laughter Ring!” by Eva Conrad. The chapter entitled “Humor in Children’s Literature” by Janice Alberghene was one of the finalists for the Children’s Literature Association’s Literary Criticism Award for the best critical article of 1988 on the subject of children’s literature.
Author : Eleni Loizou
Release : 2019-07-24
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 022/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Research on Young Children’s Humor by : Eleni Loizou
Download or read book Research on Young Children’s Humor written by Eleni Loizou. This book was released on 2019-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wide spectrum of research on young children’s humor and illuminates the depth and complexity of humor development in children from birth through age 8 and beyond. It highlights the work of pioneers in young children’s humor research including Paul McGhee, Doris Bergen, and Vasu Reddy. Presenting a variety of new perspectives, the book examines such issues as play, humor, laughing and pleasure within the context of learning and development. It looks at humor, wordplay and cartoons that can be used as educational tools in the classroom. Finally, it provides explorations of humor within a cultural and spiritual context. The book presents diverse and creative methods to study humor and provides practical implications for adults working with children. The book offers a powerful springboard for moving research and practice toward a deeper understanding of young children’s humor as an integral and meaningful component of early development and learning.
Author : Janette B. Benson
Release : 2010-05-21
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Social and Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood by : Janette B. Benson
Download or read book Social and Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood written by Janette B. Benson. This book was released on 2010-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research is increasingly showing the effects of family, school, and culture on the social, emotional and personality development of children. Much of this research concentrates on grade school and above, but the most profound effects may occur much earlier, in the 0-3 age range. This volume consists of focused articles from the authoritative Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development that specifically address this topic and collates research in this area in a way that isn't readily available in the existent literature, covering such areas as adoption, attachment, birth order, effects of day care, discipline and compliance, divorce, emotion regulation, family influences, preschool, routines, separation anxiety, shyness, socialization, effects of television, etc. This one volume reference provides an essential, affordable reference for researchers, graduate students and clinicians interested in social psychology and personality, as well as those involved with cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Presents literature on influences of families, school, and culture in one source saving users time searching for relevant related topics in multiple places and literatures in order to fully understand any one area Focused content on age 0-3- save time searching for and wading through lit on full age range for developmentally relevant info Concise, understandable, and authoritative for immediate applicability in research
Author : MCGHEE
Release : 2016-01-20
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis HUMOR AND CHILDREN S DEVELOPMENT by : MCGHEE
Download or read book HUMOR AND CHILDREN S DEVELOPMENT written by MCGHEE. This book was released on 2016-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book that is geared toward practical applications of humor with children. Health care professionals, counselors, social workers, students, and parents will find this to be a fascinating, instructive volume that illustrates how to effectively incorporate humor into children's lives to produce enormously positive results. With a strong "how to" focus, this enlightening volume addresses the use of humor in the classroom--to promote learning and to foster higher levels of creative thinking. Experts who are on the cutting edge of humor and its benefits for children examine the importance of humor in fostering social and emotional development and in adapting to stressful situations. And for the scholarly reader, Humor and Children's Development documents the major research trends focusing on humor and its development. This excellent resource--certain to spark further debate and research--offers an unrivaled opportunity to further understand children's behavior and development.Humor and Children's Development was featured in the February 1990 issue of Working Mother magazine in article titled "Let Laughter Ring!" by Eva Conrad.The chapter entitled "Humor in Children's Literature" by Janice Alberghene was one of the finalists for the Children's Literature Association's Literary Criticism Award for the best critical article of 1988 on the subject of children's literature.
