Book title:
Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments
Author: Deb Curtis, and Margie Carter
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Readleaf Press, MN United States
So recently in the last few months, I've been working with a new childcare employer, I shall call Employer O., or EO for short. They aren't an recruitment agency, and shall be deemed as such.
After having been to a number of their campuses, I've had a feel of how their different schools prepare their environment.
I found this book a couple of months back, in March, and only remembered now that I had wrote a short post on it.
I found this book a couple of months back, in March, and only remembered now that I had wrote a short post on it.
When I saw this book, Designs for Living and Learning, at the TAFE library, I thought it was an apt moment to borrow it.
Notes taken from this text:
Elements to consider when planning EC spaces:
- Connections and a sense of belonging
- Flexible space and open ended materials
- Wonder, curiosity, and intellectual engagement
- Symbolic representations, literacy, and the visual arts.
Pg21: The lives of today's children are filled with plastic, concrete, metal, electronic media, and other materials
