Thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of early years workers and students on courses leading to qualifications in child care and education, this handbook explains how play develops and how children develop whilst playing.
Thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of early years workers and students on courses leading to qualifications in child care and education, this handbook explains how play develops and how children develop whilst playing.
Thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of early years workers and students on courses leading to qualifications in child care and education, this handbook explains how play develops and how children develop whilst playing.
Based on the pioneering work of Mary D. Sheridan, Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development - key topics for all who work with young children. Thoroughly updated for a contemporary audience, it explains how children's play develops and how th…
Based on the pioneering work of Mary D. Sheridan, Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development - key topics for all those who work with young children. Updated for a contemporary audience and fully evidence-based, it explains how children's play…
How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experiment…
Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and …
TV, video games, and computers are easily accessible to 21st century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, the authors look at the cognitive and moral potential - and concern - created by electronic media.
"This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy. Re-embracing our ancestry as hunter gatherers we gain a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of play, not only in terms of how children learn, but also in showing us as educators how we can l…
This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy. Re-embracing our ancestry as hunter gatherers we gain a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of play, not only in terms of how children learn, but also in showing us as educators how we can la…