| Sumario: | "This book describes an approach to classroom management and discipline based on attachment theory. An overview of attachment theory research and a detailed description of its implications for teaching and classroom management are provided. One teacher, Laura Ecken, and her second/third-grade class in a high-poverty school are chronicled across two years as she manages her class, guided by attachment theory. Laura’s day-by-day and week-by-week efforts to build caring, trusting relationships with and among her students are documented in detail. The many steps she takes to guide the class into becoming a caring, learning community while also meeting her students’ individual needs for autonomy, belonging, and competence are clearly described. Of course, not all goes well in this very real classroom, and how Laura manages the pressures of competition and students’ many misbehaviors, ordinary and serious, are clearly and sometimes humorously described. Laura’s teaching was not just about learning the academic curriculum or even about creating a supportive and friendly classroom, it was also about helping her students realize that their school learning was part of the process of composing their future lives. Such teaching is not easy and is counter to more controlling management approaches common in many schools. The book ends with a chapter that describes several students from Laura’s class seven years later, when they are in high school" --Presentación del editor
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