Early childhood care and education

This book is a collected volume that brings together research from authors working in cross-disciplinary academic areas including early childhood, linguistics and education, and draws on the shared interests of the authors, namely understanding children's interactions and the co-production of knowledge in everyday communication.

Based on the teachings of Jesus and a biblical foundation, this book presents a new framework for education and teaching, referred to as the shalom education model, that addresses four essential questions in education (why teach, what to teach, how to teach and who are teachers?

This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People's Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book explores how professionals can engage and inspire parents to support their young children's mathematics learning.

This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries.

This book on teaching through story is the first to highlight the rich storytelling cultures of Australia and Asia.

This book explores how stretching stories through posthuman and autoethnographic perspectives can produce new stories that decolon(ial)ize traditional thinking and approaches to Early Childhood Education (ECE).

This book provides a refreshing look at kindergarten teachers' practical knowledge and their context-specific reasoning of the usefulness of constructivism from a culturally emic perspective.

This book provides a highly informative yet concise overview of special education and inclusive education that serves as a valuable introduction to the field.

This compilation focuses on the theory and conceptualisation of statistics and probability in the early years and the development of young children's (ages 3-10) understanding of data and chance.

This book covers the underexplored subject of 'fathering' in India.

This book presents a holistic view of child development that emphasises on being mindful of the child as well as his/her environment.

This handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline.

This book presents a critical reimagining of education and educational research in addressing practices of representation and their relation to epistemology, subjectivity and ontology in the context of early childhood education.

This book offers a theoretical and epistemological-methodological framework as an alternative approach to the instrumental-descriptive methodology that has prevailed in psychology to date.

This is the first comprehensive book to consider STEM education from early childhood through to senior secondary education.

This book features interviews with 19 scholars who do research with children in a variety of contexts.

This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the 'Arctic' through the everyday experiences of children.

This book brings together a collection of work from around the world in order to consider effective STEM, robotics, mobile apps education from a range of perspectives.

This book provides a philosophical, socio-political and theoretical understanding of the notion of Becoming in the context of the related concepts, and in contemplation of the notion of Being.

This book examines sustainability learning with children, art and water in the new material, posthuman turn.

This book shines a light on novel and less familiar domains of early English language education for children aged 3 to 12, in mainstream and out-of-school settings.

This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of children's everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne.

Das vorliegende Manual stellt die Konkretisierung und Fortsetzung des Verfahrens zur Einschätzung und Erweiterung sensitiv-responsiver und lernunterstützender Interaktionskompetenz frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte dar, welches 2017 bei Springer VS veröffentlicht wurde.

Das vorliegende Manual stellt die Konkretisierung und Fortsetzung des Verfahrens zur Einschätzung und Erweiterung sensitiv-responsiver und lernunterstützender Interaktionskompetenz frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte dar, welches 2017 bei Springer VS veröffentlicht wurde.

This volume problematizes the intentions of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) from two new perspectives - the context of small island states and the bi-directional, intergenerational learning about the environment and sustainability that takes place in a variety of contexts, including the family home and school.

This collection explores key issues related to infant and toddler wellbeing, offering diverse international perspectives on how wellbeing is culturally understood.

What do the Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPCs) mean in practice?

This book explores an under-researched but vital part of education: the first year at primary/elementary school.

This book explores an under-researched but vital part of education: the first year at primary/elementary school.

What do the Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPCs) mean in practice?

This book studies the many different ways in which the lives of the first, third, and fourth generations intersect and the reciprocal benefits that can accrue from establishing positive intergenerational bonds.

This book critically examines contemporary educational practices with a children's rights lens.

This book offers a close and detailed account of the emergent and creative pedagogies of children learning together in a small, not-for-profit preschool, and the entangled becomings of their carers as well as the researcher-artist-author.

This book examines key ideas related to the Theory of Subjectivity within a cultural-historical approach.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of globalization and transformation, considering the cultural contexts of early childhood education systems as discourses as well as concrete phenomena and 'lived experience.

This book investigates the impact of integrating culturally relevant and pedagogically dynamic classroom management strategies into the curriculum of an urban secondary education pre-service methods course.

This book provides new insights into how interactions in early childhood education are being studied, and into what these studies' findings mean for improving the quality of early childhood education.

This book is a research guide for implementing contemporary playground strategies to promote active, healthy students.

Around the globe, there is a growing awareness of the importance of addressing students' social and emotional development and wellbeing during schooling.

Einrichtungen der frühkindlichen Bildung/Kindertagesbetreuung stehen zunehmend im öffentlichen Fokus.

Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish.

This book provides a missing link between marginality, migration and education in Zimbabwe, focusing on the educational experiences of migrants' children in an effort to influence government policies concerning migrant parents and their left-behind children.

This book presents the educational view and practice of the Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and pedagogue Janusz Korczak (Warsaw 1878-Treblinka 1942).

This book presents an analysis of the impact of the social crisis on the well-being of children and adolescents in Europe.

This book provides a wide spectrum of research on young children's humor and illuminates the depth and complexity of humor development in children from birth through age 8 and beyond.

This book is a comparative study of how early childhood educational policies and initiatives in three countries-China, India, and the United States-have been utilized as both direct and indirect strategies for responding to fierce global economic competition.

This book investigates the position of young children's self-determination within a range of social contexts, such as education, social care, mass-media, health, politics, law and the family.