Preschool category: 2281 books
Play
The Foundation that Supports the House of Higher Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Playing is vital to the social, physical, cognitive, and spiritual development of young children. Yet cries for more "academic preschools" and demands for "higher test scores" are forcing play out of many early childhood environments. Play will show early childhood educators what...
The Tao of Montessori
Reflections on Compassionate Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
"If, like some, you regret that Montessori too rarely in her writings appreciated the humanity of teachers-their creativity, their curiosity, their doubts-this book stands as the perfect complement."-Jola-Montessori.com
Evocative and unique, The Tao of Montessori offers a quiet balance...
Helping with Behaviour
Establishing the Positive and Addressing the Difficult in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book shows how to establish good practice in early years settings so that all children are supported in developing positive interactions with one another.
With limited material available for practitioners in this area, Sue Roffey explains the features of an 'emotionally literate' environment...
Music And Wee Ones
Music And, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
A collection of helpful hints sung to familiar tunes for the Pre-School and Kindergarten teacher.
The Ooey Gooey® Handbook
Identifying and Creating Child-Centered Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Lisa Murphy and her company, Ooey Gooey, Inc., are well-known across the early childhood field. Lisa is on the road about 300 days a year doing workshops and conferences both domestically and internationally—and she can pack auditoriums built to hold 5,000. She is an excellent promoter of her books.
The...
Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies
Applying Post-Structural Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range...
by David Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
How do we understand children and young people's lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices? Can the geographical concepts of space, place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors?
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by Judith Ackroyd, Jo Barter-Boulton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Designed for busy teachers, Drama Lessons: Ages 4–7 provides tried and tested lesson plans which will help you to make your drama lessons fun learning experiences.
Drama Lessons: Ages 4–7 emerges from the continuing positive responses to Drama Lessons for Five to Eleven Year Olds (2001)...
Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning
Deleuze and Guattari in Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the learning child, this book argues that the challenge to practice and research is to find ways of...
The Science inside the Child
The story of what happens when we're growing up
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children’s individual development within the development of our species, at genes, at the hormone systems that flood our bodies, at the neuroscience...
Helping Children Learn
Contributions to a Cognitive Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1988, this volume presented a new understanding of how teachers in early childhood education helped children learn. It carefully and critically reviews different teaching approaches, and evaluates two innovatory teaching techniques which were at the focus of recent action research...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Brain Games
Over 200 Brain-Boosting Games for Brilliant Babies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Play that stimulates young minds.
Play is the language that babies know best. Here, readers will find over 300 games to play with infants from one week to eighteen months old. Divided into games that stimulate cognitive, language, emotional, and social development, this book will delight parents...
The Nursery Year in Action
Following children’s interests through the year
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Child-led learning in the early years allows children to thrive while making accelerated progress. Young children learn and develop best when they are in a stimulating environment which is carefully organised and equipped to meet their needs, interests and stages of development, and where each child’s...
Child-Initiated Learning
Positive Relationships in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
How to plan for an individualised learning journey with every child in your care. Covering how to plan and support each child through sustained shared thinking, this book will give you the skills you need to follow each child's interests and plan for engaging learning experiences. The book offers practical...