International Journal of Education and Psychological Research

(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)


Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179

VOLUME 6 - ISSUE 1

(March 2017)

Positive Mental Health in the Perspective of Early Childhood Care & Education


Authors: [1] Nagamani Krishnamurthy [2] Dr. Kalpana Venugopal [3] Dr. S. K. Tripathi

Pages: 18-21

Abstract:

The rich developmental trend in the first years of life draws the attention of early childhood educators to provide stimulating, engaging and developmentally appropriate practices to ensure positive developmental changes in the young children. It has focused the attention of researchers from time immemorial on the amazing aspects of child development and the skills and techniques, knowledge and strategies that could be utilised in the development of positive personalities through ECE participation . Traditionally, the impact of structural characteristics of school environments like teacher credentials, classroom materials, etc have been observed in the literature but the recently emerging findings are indicative of the power of process oriented components of development like teacher-child interactions, classroom emotional climate, etc on predicting child outcomes. The current paper is a case study of a child’s academic and socio-emotional success due to the powerful influence of a high quality teacher-child relationship and a positive emotional tone in the classroom environment. The paper is a depiction of the positive impact of a healthy, high quality relationship between the teacher & child on the child’s academic and socioemotional success.