Handle With Care : Understanding Children and Teachers [Paperback]

Richard Bromfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2000

Offering a window to the public and private world of the classroom, Harvard Medical School psychologist Richard Bromfield reveals the feelings and motives, fears and joys, the short-sightedness and grand vision, that both children and their teachers bring to school. Touching and insightful, this thoughtful book explores the complex, and sometimes confusing, ways in which the hearts, minds, and psyches of children and teachers (and even parents) mesh, clash, and do everything in between.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The tangled, treacherous lives of today's children make teaching a more difficult, more demanding job than it has ever been. Handle with Care reminds its of that, offering insights that look beneath the daily struggle and strife of the schoolroom into the resilient spirit of the child's heart and its deeply hidden needs." -Lois Lowry, author of the Newberry Medal winners, Number the Stars and The Giver

"Richard Bromfield expertly peels away layer after layer of preconceptions about how children think and what they want, and what secrets they carry with them to the classroom. His book is finally about learning to listen with scrupulous care, so that we can reach the children who inevitably reach for us." -Beth Kephart, author of the National Book Award Finalist, A Slant of Sun and Into the Tangle of Friendship

"A moving and sensitive account of the inner world of teachers and children in schools and the vital connection between them. This book will help teachers and parents to understand each others' deep concerns." -Professor Ellen Winner, Boston College, and author of Gifted Children: Myths and Realities

From the Inside Flap

Offering a window to the public and private world of the classroom, Harvard Medical School psychologist Richard Bromfield reveals the feelings and motives, fears and joys, the short-sightedness and grand vision, that both children and their teachers bring to school. Touching and insightful, this thoughtful book explores the complex-and sometimes confusing-ways in which the hearts, minds, and psyches of children and teachers (and even parents) mesh, clash, and do everything in between.

Short but sweet, deep yet accessible, entertaining, and written beautifully, Handle With Care: Understanding Children and Teachers will appeal to and reward educators, parents, psychologists, and others who care dearly about and ever work to improve that most human of enterprises called school.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Teachers College Press (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807739944
• ISBN-13: 978-0807739945
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,553,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard Bromfield, Ph.D. is on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School. He writes about children, families, therapy, and Asperger Disorder for parents, general readers and professionals. (See www.RichardBromfield.com to learn more about his work and books.)