"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…
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"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…
"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 …
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 book reveals the profound impact that our purchasing obsessed culture has on our children and argues that corporate marketing to youth has reshaped the experience of childhood into something that is prefabricated. Scholars in education, sociology, and cultural studies contr…
This work is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. The text focuses on how parent-child relationships are not the only determinants of a child's academic competence, social competence, and beh…
An accessible text exploring child development. Includes detailed development charts and notes on practice and the wider context. Essential reading for child development modules.
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.
This book discusses key influential approaches to ECEC across the world, considering less well-known systems to broaden thinking.
This book discusses key influential approaches to ECEC across the world, considering less well-known systems to broaden thinking.
Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity in…
Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity in…
"Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity i…
Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity in…
"Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity i…
A physical education curriculum for everyone who works with preschoolers and kindergarteners and understands the critical role of movement.
