Baby Teacher: Nurturing Neural Networks From Birth to Age Five

Rebecca A. Shore

doi:10.5771/9781461648079

Summary

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain? Or how you can best nurture a child's natural development? Or why exactly Bach is better than Mozart for babies? This book will explain why. No technical knowledge is necessary, as Shore makes recent neurological findings accessible to all those who come into contact with young children. Everything a baby experiences in his or her first five years is building the foundation of life's learning potential through the formation of neural networks in the brain. Through increasing the complexity of the early childhood environment in developmentally appropriate ways, we can nurture these neural networks. The visionary educational leader must look beyond the traditional boundaries of the K-12 system, and towards the space between the maternity ward and the kindergarten door.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2002
Copyright Year: 2002
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-4284-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4807-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 185
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1: Finding Faulty Assumptions No access Pages 1 - 10
2: Brain Science for Nonneurologists No access Pages 11 - 24
3: How we know what we know No access Pages 25 - 44
4: Nurturing our Nature No access Pages 45 - 56
5: Music Matters No access Pages 57 - 80
6: The Bach Effect No access Pages 81 - 112
7: Implications for Education No access Pages 113 - 142
8: Curricular Considerations No access Pages 143 - 152
9: Creating Complex Curriculum for the Crib and Beyond No access Pages 153 - 178
Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 184
About the Author No access Pages 185 - 185