Dave Riley, PhD, began working as a Head Start Assistant Teacher in East Los Angeles in 1972 and has several years' experience as a Head Start educational consultant. He has taught at the community college and university levels, including the last two decades at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the Rothermel-Bascom professor of human ecology in the Development of Human Development and Family Studies and Child Development Specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Extension. His published research has investigated parent-child relations, parenting education, and early care and education, including two earlier books by Redleaf Press.
Intellectual Development
Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood SettingsAuthor(s): Ann Ramminger, Dave Riley, Joan Klinkner, Mary Carns (click on the author's name for more titles)
Intellectual Development explains the science behind early childhood practices that nurture intellectual development - and the shortcomings of others - in terms that are easy to understand.
RRP $55.95
Rethinking Nutrition
Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood SettingsAuthor(s): Ann Ramminger, Dave Riley, Susan Nitzke (click on the author's name for more titles)
Written by a team of academic researchers and early childhood educators, Rethinking Nutrition provides science and practice-based information to meet young children's nutritional and developmental needs, establish healthy patterns with food, and bring nutrition principles to life in early childhood settings.
RRP $62.95
Social & Emotional Development
Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood SettingsAuthor(s): Ann Ramminger, Dave Riley, Joan Klinkner (click on the author's name for more titles)
Social and Emotional Development examines what research says about common early childhood program practices, such as playing Simon Says or holding children while feeding them. It explores the effectiveness of these early learning tools and shows the link between the practice of early childhood education and the science of child development.
RRP $56.95
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