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Caring Spaces, Learning Places

Name: Caring Spaces, Learning Places
SKU: 4000570
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Children's Enviroments That Work!

by Jim Greenman, Edited by Mike Lindstrom

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Caring Spaces, Learning Places is current thinking and philosophy on environments for young children. The book has practical solutions and thought-provoking insights to creating your space. This is a resource for Directors, Trainers and Professors, Students, Designers, and Classroom Teachers.

Overview

Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills.

The newest revision of Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find current thinking about children’s environments – 380 pages to challenge you, stimulate you, inspire you.

Editor’s Note:

Jim Greenman was a designer, philosopher, and provocateur, but he was first and foremost a teacher. His teachings and insights live on through his writing, and while I was stunned at how up-to-date and pertinent Caring Spaces remains, I shouldn’t have been. After all, I use things that Jim taught me every day.

To say that the editing team had a light touch with this 3rd edition of Caring Spaces would be an understatement. Jim’s words stand the test of time incredibly well, and this new edition leaves his sometimes quirky and always insightful prose intact. We have worked hard to include updated references, a new appendices section, and to refine the layout and graphics in ways that make the book more readable, but the ideas, anecdotes, strategies, and innate “rightness” of the book we left alone. My hope is that Caring Spaces inspires a new generation of educators and designers to realize Jim’s vision of spaces for children where wonder, beauty, sensory richness, and functionality are the norm and not the exception.

“Greenman had the unique ability to demonstrate how space, time, objects, culture, and behavior can be made to co-act to create places that afford rich learning opportunities and healthy development of children and families. Greenman’s wisdom and humanity informs every page with practical advice and creative ideas for designing quality settings worthy of contemporary childhood, which also serve as work environments to support dedicated child care professionals. Beautifully composed, Caring Spaces is destined to be the most dog-eared book in every child care center striving for quality.”

– Robin C. Moore, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Director, Natural Learning Initiative, College of Design, North Carolina State University

“Jim Greenman was a designer, philosopher, and provocateur, but he was first and foremost a teacher. His teachings and insights live on through his writing, and while I was stunned at how up-to-date and pertinent Caring Spaces remains, I shouldn’t have been. After all, I use things that Jim taught me every day.”

– Mike Lindstrom, Founding Archtiect at studioMLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Forward
Editor’s Note
Introduction
Chapter One – Why Do I Feel This Way?
Chapter Two – The Lives of Children
Chapter Three – Programs for Children (and Families)
Chapter Four – Some Characteristics of Space
Chapter Five – Dimensions of Children’s Settings
Chapter Six – Infants and Toddlers in Groups
Chapter Seven – The Building and Site
Chapter Eight – Interiors: Walls, Windows, Doors, and Lighting
Chapter Nine – Caring
Chapter Ten – Storage and Display
Chapter Eleven – Room Arrangement
Chapter Twelve – Indoor Learning Environments
Chapter Thirteen – Outdoor Learning Environments
Chapter Fourteen – Making Places/Changing Spaces

Jim Greenman

Jim Greenman was Senior Vice President for Education and Program Development at Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons has over 600 centers and schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Jim dedicated over thirty years’ experience as an educator and early childhood administrator. His experience ranged from working with employer-sponsored child care to inner city, hospital, and university programs; early childhood and family education programs; Head Start, family child care, and public and private schools. Jim played a significant role in the facility and program design process for over 100 early childhood projects and taught the Institute on Child Care Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He received a Master’s Degree and completed additional advanced graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Jim passed away in 2009 after a courageous battle with cancer.