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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Education, according to John Dewey, should be viewed as dynamic and ongoing with direct teaching of integrated content knowledge. This volume offers readers an examination of the content areas in early childhood curriculum that honor Dewey's belief in active, integrated learning. When young children...
A Cultural-Historical Study of Children Learning Science
Foregrounding Affective Imagination in Play-based Settings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science. It draws upon cultural-historical theory in order to theorise early childhood science education in relation to our currently globalised education contexts. The book argues that...
Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children
Transforming Visuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood education have new theoretical tools to guide their research practices. The book explicitly theorises the use of digital visual tools from a cultural-historical...
Digital Childhoods
Technologies and Children’s Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book highlights the multiple ways that digital technologies are being used in everyday contexts at home and school, in communities, and across diverse activities, from play to web searching, to talking to family members who are far away. The book helps readers understand the diverse practices...
Learning and Teaching at M-Level
A Guide for Student Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Your teacher training or professional development course will now probably include Masters level assessment and credits as teaching 'becomes an M-level profession' and a greater emphasis is placed on helping teachers develop deeper understandings about aspects of learning and teaching through a higher...
Child Observation for the Early Years
9780857257451
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This is a key text for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for candidates on EYPS pathways. It enables students to appreciate the central role of observation for understanding, planning for and educating early years children....
by Denise Reardon, Dilys Wilson, Dympna Fox Reed
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Covering all routes to early years teaching, this essential textbook provides students and practitioners with everything they need to know to deliver outstanding Early Years practice.
Previously titled Achieving Early Years Professional Status,this new edition is completely revised...
Early Childhood Studies
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
"Underpinned by ecological theories of development concerned with children, families and communities, this book provides the reader with philosophical, economic and sociological insights and with the latest thinking emerging from post-humanism. In so doing, it provides tools that enable students...
Early Years Play and Learning
Developing Social Skills and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This practical book provides an accessible framework for observing and assessing children's learning through play. It will help early years practitioners to deepen their understanding of the links between intellectual development, the growth of language and the emotional well-being of young children.
Drawing...
The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula
An Investigation into Teachers Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future...
Varied Perspectives on Play and Learning
Theory and Research on Early Years Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work about play and early childhood education across 13 countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore, China and Australia. It contributes...
Kindergarten and ASD
How to Get the Best Possible Experience for Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Answering all of the key questions about the kindergarten experience, this compact guide will give parents the confidence to be the most effective, up-to-speed advocates as their child enters formal education.
"Which school should I choose, or should I home-school?"
"How can...
Being with Babies
Understanding and Responding to the Infants in Your Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Being with Babies is a great resource for both beginning and experienced caregivers. Each chapter includes information on the developmental stages of babies and describes issues that caregivers face every day. The book offers scenarios that illustrate these challenges, then suggests solutions caregivers...
I Love Letters
More Than 200 Quick & Easy Activities to Introduce Young Children to Letters and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Steer children toward a lifetime of reading with more than two hundred activities, games, and songs to introduce the alphabet. It all begins with twenty-six letters; the wiggles and squiggles that turn into words, stories, poems, and great literature are the tools for future readers. Children will...