Learning to Be "Me" while Coming to Understand "We": Encouraging Prosocial Babies in Group Settings

Autor/inn/en	McMullen, Mary Benson; Addleman, Jennifer M.; Fulford, Amanda M.; Moore, Sarah L.; Mooney, Shari J.; Sisk, Samantha S.; Zachariah, Jasmine
Titel	Learning to Be "Me" while Coming to Understand "We": Encouraging Prosocial Babies in Group Settings
Quelle	In: Young Children, 64 (2009) 4, S.20-28 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1538-6619
Schlagwörter	Infants; Toddlers; Prosocial Behavior; Child Development; Self Concept; Groups; Group Membership; Emotional Development; Empathy; Caring; Child Care Centers; Early Childhood Education; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Kindesentwicklung; Selbstkonzept; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Gefühlsbildung; Empathie; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; USA
Abstract	At the same time young babies are developing an understanding of self as separate from others--what it means to be "me"--many also face having to negotiate living, learning, growing, and developing as part of a group--what it means to be "we". This is true for more than half of all infants in the United States under the age of 9 months, who now spend many or most of their waking hours in some type of group care outside the home. This article discusses how to encourage prosocial babies in group settings. It features three classrooms where teachers encourage and support prosocial behaviors in babies and allow strong positive social emotional development to occur in infants and toddlers and prosocial skills to flourish. In the case of these three classrooms, it is evident that infants and toddlers are indeed up to the challenge of grappling with understanding the difficult lessons of becoming "we" and "me" at the same time. This article also provides the authors' definition of babies' prosocial behaviors and shows how young babies have a remarkable capacity for prosocial behavior, an ability greatly underestimated by traditional child development theorists. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Association for the Education of Young Children. 1313 L Street NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 22205-4101. Tel: 800-424-2460; Tel: 202-232-8777; Fax: 202-328-2649; e-mail: editorial@naeyc.org; Web site: http://journal.naeyc.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10