This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational well-being. Contributors e…
This book draws on both in and out of school literacy practices with teachers and families to enhance the numeracy of early learners. It provides highly illustrative exemplars, targeted for learners up to approximately eight years of age whose home language differs from the lang…
This volume focuses on very young children's (aged 0-8) rights in a digital world. It gathers current research from around the globe that focuses on young children's rights as agental citizens to the provision of and participation in digital devices and content-as well as their …
This text emphasizes enhancing the quality of children's learning and providing support for practitioners. It addresses the cognitive, social, physical and emotional learning needs of young children and strategies to develop learning are explored.
The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children, especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and com…
"In The Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson presents a new and provocative theory about the nature and origins of uniquely human thinking." "A prevailing opinion on the acquisition of thought and language is that babies are born with pre-programmed modules in the brain. But this is t…
This book, the first in the Gentle Revolution "RM" Series, is an international bestseller and has been translated into 18 languages over the last 40 years. Parents the world over have read this book and discovered the great joy of teaching their babies and giving them the gift o…
"Utilizing the actual experiences of six preschool children, The Secret of Natural Readers documents the process of reading development through stories of their early years. The author discusses the implications of natural reading development and its feasibility among preschoole…
"Utilizing the actual experiences of six preschool children, The Secret of Natural Readers documents the process of reading development through stories of their early years. The author discusses the implications of natural reading development and its feasibility among preschoole…
"Psychological Development and Early Childhood is a broad and accessible introduction to theory and research, presenting integrated, research-based accounts of development in key areas of early childhood, such as perceptual abilities, early relationships, individuality and objec…