"Invitation to Early Childhood Education: Becoming a Seasoned Childcare Professional" By Yasushi Saeki Price: ¥1800 ※No writing inside. A980 By questioning child development and childcare, this book explores the origins of education. It takes the child's perspective and shows the path to becoming a seasoned childcare professional who "lives together" with children. This is the author's first book on childcare, who has been questioning human "learning" from the perspective of situated cognition. While questioning child development and childcare, it explores the origins of education. Instead of moving children with specialized knowledge and skills, it always takes the child's perspective and shows the path to becoming a seasoned childcare professional who "lives together" with children. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Looking at Children (Looking at children concretely; Breaking away from "Ken-chan's Picture Diary," etc.) Chapter 2: Children "Developing" (Changes in the view of development in childcare; How Piaget was overcome, etc.) Chapter 3: Exploring the Origins of Childcare Thought (The beginning of early childhood education; Sozo Kurahashi's thought on early childhood education, etc.) Chapter 4: Childcare of "Living Together" (Saeki's "Donut Theory"; Cultural practice, with cultural practice, to cultural practice, etc.) Size: B6 / Number of pages: 212p / Height: 19cm Product Code: 9784130020800