Early childhood care and education

In a culture where people easily and hastily cancel relationships rather than cultivate them, discover what the Bible has to say about how we need to keep showing up for one anothereven when we feel like walking away.

Effective Practice in the Early Years supports students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early years, Early Childhood and related disciplines studying professional practice in the early years.

Effective Practice in the Early Years supports students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early years, Early Childhood and related disciplines studying professional practice in the early years.

This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created.

This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people.

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood.

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts.

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers.

Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities innately.

Kindergarten is no longer just a time when children play and sit in a circle.

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This book fills a gap in early developmental psychology by providing a critical reconsideration of the status of artifact objects as protagonists of children's actions and communication.

This book presents a guiding framework for designing and supporting participatory research with young children.

Largely as a result of social policies and cultural factors, the Nordic countries continually score high in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children's outcomes.

This book is based on the power of stories to support children in all areas of their lives.

This collection examines LEGO from an array of critical and cultural studies approaches, foregrounding the world-renowned brand's ideological power and influence.

This book brings together Steiner's philosophical, biodynamic and cultural contributions to education, where 'spirit' and 'soul' are the creative elements in human evolution.

This book gives insights in the vivid research area of early mathematics learning.

This book explores the distinctive theoretical and methodological features associated with conducting ethical and respectful research with young families, along with its unique considerations and challenges.

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally.

This book explores how physical education (PE) can be best enacted in primary schools in order to optimise children's wellbeing.

This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces.

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary schools are located in.

This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

This book explores how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers.

This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP).

This exciting new book brings fresh knowledge of affective pedagogies in early childhood education and care.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems.

This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century.

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States.

This book explores how the Montessori movement developed a cultural critique and gained momentum during the interwar years of political turbulence.

This book brings together researchers from a variety of national contexts to examine and explore the conceptualisation, reconceptualisation and translation of children's rights for infants and toddlers in early childhood education and care settings.

This book explores international perspectives on quality improvement within the field of early childhood education and care.

This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives.

Reflecting contemporary theory and research in early art education, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to new ways of thinking about the place of art, play, and aesthetics in the lives and education of young children.

This book examines Joseph Kamiru Gikubu's impact on Kenyan youth education.

This book brings together the work of researchers from around the globe around the topic of children's first transitions to early care and education.

This study explores the experiences of women of color who attended an elite, predominantly white public high school in the Northeastern United States through one of three points of entry: as town residents attending their local high school, or as commuter or boarding students via two distinct voluntary racial desegregation programs.

Drawing from an international authorship and having global appeal, this book scrutinizes, suggests and aggravates the relationships, boundaries and connections between arts, research and education in various contexts.

This volume showcases proven approaches and strategies to diminish the world-wide problem of bullying, and constitutes an overview of an international and multilingual (English, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian) approach to anti-bullying, harassment, intimidation and teasing (HIBT) education.

This book brings together a range of scholars from 10 different countries to address the contemporary state of play in national standard language education - i.

This book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This book presents unique results of complex studies from the all-Russian longitudinal study "e;Grow with Russia"e;.

This book introduces a term for our times, 'Global Majority,' as conceptualised within the context of school leadership.

This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy.

This book conceptualizes the nature of mathematical modeling in the early grades from both teaching and learning perspectives.

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context.

This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide.