Early childhood care and education

This book makes the case for young children as both keenly materially aware of and highly dependent on sets of interrelated material-discursive circumstances.

This volume makes a comprehensive assessment of the status and quality of early educational experiences at preschool and early primary grades in India.

This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children's learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur.

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

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

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 covers the underexplored subject of 'fathering' in India.

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 uses practice theory to examine the role of 'middle-leadership'.

This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned authors in the STEM field to share innovations in the teaching of STEM.

This book addresses engineering learning in early childhood, spanning ages 3 to 8 years.

This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education.

This book is based on the notion that there are many ways in which mathematics learning can be achieved for students and that not all of them are focused on the mathematics classroom.

This research-based book focuses on the development and evolution of the School for Student Leadership (SSL), an alternate and unique residential school for year-nine students, operating in Victoria, Australia.

This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned authors in the STEM field to share innovations in the teaching of STEM.

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.

This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China.

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

This unique book brings together international scholars from around the globe to examine how different feminist theories are being used in early childhood research, policy and pedagogy.

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

This book presents state of the art knowledge aimed at understanding the clinical and socio-cultural factors that affect mental health of children and adolescents.

The first book in the series Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three year olds: Cross Disciplinary insights and innovations establishes a path for the much-needed examination of the experiences of infants and toddlers in contemporary educational settings across the globe.

This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling.

This book introduces a comprehensive RTP Model that reframes research to practice knowledge and inclusive education philosophy to promote the sustained use of research to promote and enhance meaningful education for all students.

This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child's learning and self-advocacy.

There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context.

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.

This is a deliberately provocative book.

Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations.

'Learning Bodies' addresses the lack of attention paid to the body in youth and childhood studies.

This book examines connections between policy contexts, school experiences and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Singapore.

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 international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children.

This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science.

This edited book presents the most recent theory, research and practice on information and technology literacy as it relates to the education of young children.

This book conceptualizes the 'lived spaces' of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors researching within diverse theoretical frameworks.

This volume deals with strategies aimed at increasing psychological well-being in both clinical and non-clinical settings, with a special focus on the impact of cross-cultural influences on these processes.

In 1972, Dr Margaret Pollak published her book Today's Three-Year- Oids in London.

This book offers current international initiatives, developed for working with children from "e;Birth to Eight"e; by a diverse group of noted professional authors.

This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts.

This book provides an important compilation and synthesis of current work in transition to school research.

Based on a yearlong ethnographic study, this book describes the daily life and work of the Irente Rainbow School, a special education school for students with developmental disabilities in Lushoto, Tanzania.

This volume offers an alternative vision for education and has been written for those who are passionate about teaching and learning, in schools, universities and in the community, and providing people with the values, knowledge and skills needed to face complex social and environmental challenges.

This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy.

In response to highly publicized incidents of school violence, educators across the United States and in many other nations are seeking effective ways to prevent and modify aggressive and anti-social behaviors in students.