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- Title: Educating Your Child While You Drive: Assessing the Efficacy of Early Childhood Audiovisual Materials (For Parents Particularly)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
Description
Recently, a common topic for master's and doctoral thesis projects addresses the presumed benefits associated with educating young children--as early as at birth or even in their prenatal phases--by using commercially available materials. Educators, many of whom are also parents, appear to be fascinated by the idea of accelerating children's learning through early education, and they are convinced of the effectiveness of such commercially available educational programs as Baby Einstein and BabyPlus, as well as such books as Doman and Doman's (2001) How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence (originally published in 1984). Baby Einstein, for instance, primarily targets children from 3 months to 3 years of age, and the program consists of various audiovisual materials (e.g., DVDs, CDs, computer games, etc.) and toys, which allegedly accelerate the cognitive development among children while ensuring healthy affective development and creativity. Similarly, a series of books and workshops stemming from Doman's 1984 book, How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence, provides instructions for parents to begin teaching their infants, right after birth, a wide variety of knowledge and skills, such as English and other languages, mathematics, and music. BabyPlus markets to even younger children-those who are still in their mothers' wombs. It is designed to be placed on a pregnant mother's stomach and plays various sounds. The company claims these sounds serve as "auditory exercises" that help facilitate the brain cell maintenance in the fetus and increase the brain activities of the baby upon birth. In fact, the company website claims that babies who receive the treatment will enjoy "... an intellectual, developmental, creative, and emotional advantage" (www.babyplus.com).