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| | Description | Authoritative yet accessible, Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the newest evidence about early brain development and how children learn to speak, think, get along with others, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the surrounding context-family, child care, community-within which the child grows. Are the early years a time of vulnerability or resilience? To what extent are our future prospects constrained by how well we navigate them? How can we get all children off to a good start in life? When should we worry? The committee provides a framework for approaching such vital questions and explores how scientists know what they know about childhood development. This timely release will be important to all those who care about children and their families: policy makers, educators, researchers, program administrators, advocates, journalists, caregivers, and parents. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development | | Hardcover: | 612 pages | | Publisher: | National Academies Press | | Publication Date: | 2000-11 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0309069882 | | Package Length: | 9.5 inches | | Package Width: | 6.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Mind-numbing Jan 30, 2010
"Neurons to Neighborhood" has played a seminal role in increasing recognition among early childhood professionals and the general public of the critical role of neural development during the first years of life on subsequent life outcomes. In particular, it identifies childhood poverty as perhaps the major factor causing later cognitive and emotional deficits and disparities. That said, the book is ten years old and badly in need of a revision both to include important new research but to address a new audience. It is basically a public policy report and hence written in the mind-numbingly boring prose which seems de rigeur within the Beltway. Dr. Shonkoff's Center on the Developing Child has done an admirable job publishing short, accessible precis of many of the books findings. What is needed, in my opinion, is a shorter, more concise and more intellectually provocative work of "popular science" and social analysis.
0 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Good condition at all levels Mar 22, 2007
I received the book in in a timely fashion, and the book is in great condition.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 super terrific Oct 23, 2006
This book is a staple in the early childhood mental health field. It represents everything good in the promotion of social-emotional development in our society. Creating neurobiologically friendly environments for young children is a crossroad our society faces in an effort to have a positive impact on the mental health for our time. Implications for risk and resilience research contributions are included.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Review of From Neurons to Neighbourhoods. Aug 04, 2006
I purchased this book, because I am doing a Graduate Diploma in Maternal & Child Health in Australia. Many of our lecturers were taking quotes from this book and referring to Jack Schonkoff's remarks contained within, pertaining to new evidence on myelination and the importance of interaction and stimulation of small children and the relationship between this and brain growth. It is easy to read and I am confident that both the lay person and health professional alike will glean valuable insight. I find myself constantly referring to this book and know that this will have an effect on my future practice as a Maternal and Child Health Nurse.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Great resource! Mar 27, 2006
An amazing breadth and depth of neuroscience and its implications for how we treat children. Must reading for anyone wishing to get beyond prejudice and rhetoric to the core of what needs to be done in public policy to protect and preserve childhood in modern America. Should be 5 stars, but now a little dated, although references are excellent and it's not hard to follow the themes into the most recent research.
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