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Explores early transitions from a variety of international perspectives. This book examines issues such as: parental involvement in the transition to school; children's voices on the transition to primary school; and the construction of identity in the early years. It is aimed a…
This book help readers to understand how early years services have been transformed and to evaluate that process and to prepare for the future.
This fascinating book draws on a diversity of disciplines exploring the importance of participatory approaches to children?s early education and shows how fostering a sense of identity is essential to early learning.
"Forget stuffy, structured craft activities; young children need time to create! Perfect for children of any age and ability, the hands-on process art explorations in 'Time to Create' encourage discovery through a variety of art mediums, from rock drawing to shaving cream color …
"Forget stuffy, structured craft activities; young children need time to create! Perfect for children of any age and ability, the hands-on process art explorations in Time to Create encourage discovery through a variety of art mediums, from rock drawing to shaving cream color mi…
"Forget stuffy, structured craft activities; young children need time to create! Perfect for children of any age and ability, the hands-on process art explorations in Time to Create encourage discovery through a variety of art mediums, from rock drawing to shaving cream color mi…
"From the beloved TV disciplinarian and bestselling author of Supernanny comes an amazingly simple five-step program of Toddler Rules to help parents tame tantrums, prevent bad behavior, and create long-term peace and stability in the home. Jo Frost has always had a natural gift…
Kindergarten kissing games ... four-year-olds playing doctor ... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these - spontaneous and pleasurable - are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in some cases they are fo…
"This timely and accessible text successfully introduces, theorises and practically applies emerging ideas which now increasingly underpin early years practice, that of 'playful learning' and 'playful pedagogies'. By drawing upon observation, interviews and filmed material in th…
This timely and accessible text introduces, theorises and practically applies two important concepts which now underpin early years practice: those of 'playful learning' and 'playful pedagogies'. Pat Broadhead and Andy Burt draw upon filmed material, conversations with children,…
"This timely and accessible text successfully introduces, theorises and practically applies emerging ideas which now increasingly underpin early years practice, that of 'playful learning' and 'playful pedagogies'. By drawing upon observation, interviews and filmed material in th…
"This timely and accessible text successfully introduces, theorises and practically applies emerging ideas which now increasingly underpin early years practice, that of 'playful learning' and 'playful pedagogies'. By drawing upon observation, interviews and filmed material in th…
This book helps early years practitioners improve their observation, assessment & planning techniques.
The fourth edition is essentially still about putting the principles of early childhood education into practice.
"Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children understand the process of socialization as an embodied, biographical experience at home, at school and in the neighbourhood. Through close analysis of what children have to say, the book …
This book discusses key influential approaches to ECEC across the world, considering less well-known systems to broaden thinking.