Early childhood care and education

Wenn auf diesem Planeten ein Kind geboren wird, gerät es in eine konkrete Umgebung, von der es annehmen muss, dass sie die ganze Welt repräsentiert.

Mit spielerischen Übungen zum LernerfolgMit dem Eintritt ins Grundschulalter beginnt für Schulkinder der Ernst des Lebens.

Eingefroren in der Zeit ist ein einzigartiges und wichtiges Zeitzeugnis.

Wir sind so gern in der Natur, weil diese keine Meinung über uns hat.

This volume provides a critical assessment of the mainstream western childhood constructions and their impact to the developing world.

This book presents for the first time in English language an overview of the research done in Brazil in the field of studies of children's play.

This book examines black intellectual thought during from 1890-1940, and its relationship to the development of the alternative black curriculum in social studies.

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.

This book brings together authoritative information about the child/dog bond as it is manifested with family dogs, visiting therapy dogs, and service dogs trained to assist children with disabilities.

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective.

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

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 book focuses on improving well-being among young children.

This volume links theoretical and instructional approaches on how reading is motivated and assessed, and examines the interrelationship between reading motivation and achievement among boys and girls in culturally and geographically different settings.

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

This book brings together a collection of research-based papers on current issues in early childhood mathematics education that were presented in the Topic Study Group 1 (TSG 1) at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), held at the University of Hamburg in 2016.

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

In this book, Silin maps the common ground between early childhood and the period sociologists call "e;young-old age.

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 provides an extensive overview of curricula and instructional strategies for teaching children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This book focuses on the politics of teacher resistance to the formation and implementation of neoliberal education policies in Australia.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This handbook provides a compilation of research in Childhoodnature and brings together existing research themes and seminal authors in the field alongside new cutting-edge research authored by world-class researchers drawing on cross-cultural and international research data.

This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last decade.

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 volume discusses 14 different types of disasters and their implications on the social, emotional and academic development of young children, from birth through age eight.

This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West.

This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students.

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 book addresses the inter-linked lives and fortunes of children and women in the first two decades of the twentieth century in England.

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

This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level.

This collection addresses issues related to families and transition, and pays special attention to the transition to school, the effect of this on the family, as well as the effect of the family on that transition.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book presents evidence that children are the real experts of their lives.

This book examines corporal punishment in United States public schools.

This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China.

This book explores the inherent tension in civic education.

This book outlines the lives of six female members of the Irish Ascendancy, and describes their involvement with educational provision for poor children in Ireland at the end of the long eighteenth century.

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

This book draws on detailed case studies from three very different countries and school systems to explore the early adolescent learner and the middle years of learning, both of which are often overlooked in the literature.

This book focuses on the recent educational policy debates surrounding Muslims, schooling and the question of security in light of the Counter Terrorism Security Act - which has made 'Prevent' a legal duty for schools, colleges and universities.

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

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.

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy.

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 examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children.