Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education, 7th Edition

With its focus on the socialization of the child, this book helps readers understand how the child develops in a variety of contexts, including the family, community, and early childhood institutions.Child, Family, and Community gives readers the tools they need to work effectively with both children and parents in ways that support children to be healthy, secure, and socialized members of their families, and eventually society. Guidance strategies are presented, as well as child rearing strategies that parents, parent educators and other professionals and practitioners can put to immediate use. The author relates the many contexts in which the child exists�family, school, and community�to Bronfenbrenner�s ecological systems theory, which divide�s a person's environment into five different levels: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem.Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education 7th Edition is written by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and published by Pearson. ISBNs for Child, Family, and Community are 9780133948714, 0133948714 and the print ISBNs are 9780134042275, 0134042271. Additional ISBNs include 9780133948752.