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child-centered

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Adj.1.child-centered - designed to promote a child's personal qualities rather than to provide training or information
humane - marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering


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There have been tremendous strides made in the area of child development in the past 30 years, and the emphasis on child rearing has shifted from a parent-centered to a child-centered approach.
The reproducible pages are templates for cutting and putting together brief, little books with simple, repetitive, child-centered texts based on oral language, as well as share-and-sign pages.
That approach is more dominant in chapters with a social-history bent, whereas the chapter on the rise of child-centered popular and commercial cultures that popularized notions of play as an essential building block of modern childhood is particularly persuasive, nuanced, thorough, and highly useful to instructors and students studying the history of childhood.
 
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