Preface: the changing landscape of early childhood education -- Introduction: knowing what we know now -- Making room for emotional life in preschool -- Developmental reality and the reality of experience -- "If you're sad and you know it": the value of children's affects -- A look in the mirror: self-concept in preschool children -- Structure and relationships in preschool --Therapeutic teacher, therapeutic classroom -- Play therapy as early intervention -- Therapeutic technique: the tools of preschools that heal -- The meaning of curriculum -- Playing for keeps: the value of open-ended play -- Affect meets cognition: building a curricular bridge -- Lesson plans for emotional life -- Understanding special populations -- The traumatized child in preschool -- Helping children with autistic spectrum disorders -- Why homeless children can't sit still -- Preschool as home base. Caring for families and staff.
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