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 The Intentional Teacher. Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children's Learning

 Ann S. Epstein

The long-raging debate over "child-initiated vs. adult-directed" learning reduces a complex question to two extremes, in which either the children or the adults hold the power in a classroom. Here, finally, is a book that recognizes there is a middle ground where children and adults share responsibility for learning, and that the most effective teachers make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided experience.

Experts are commending the book as moving the field forward.