Kids Talking: Learning Relationships and Culture with Children

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Kids Talking explores communication among young children in a child-care setting, showing how games and even tentative interactions can turn into rich relationships - and a vibrant learning culture where friendships, power, and control are managed in creative ways. Filled with lively anecdotes and examples, this engaging book looks at ways children's passionate and mixed signals, communication uncertainty, conflict, and games can be transformed into effective messages. Readers who work with preschool-aged children, including parents, child-care workers, and teachers, will find useful insights and suggestions for how to enhance communication skills in young children.

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An impressive and useful handbook of advice and resources. More than that, because it presents so much evidence, it's able to show, rather than just tell, how schools can improve life for their pupils and teachers. * Times Educational Supplement *
Filled with lively anecdotes and examples, this engaging book looks at ways children's passionate and mixed signals, communication uncertainty, conflict and games can be transformed into effective messages. Readers who work with young children, including parents, child care workers and teachers, will find useful insights and suggestions for how to enhance young children's communication skills. * Education Update *
Meyer found keys to enhancing and improving preschool children's communication, especially at child development centers. * The Clarion-Ledger *

Author Bio

John Meyer is associate professor of speech communication at the University of Southern Mississippi.