Early childhood care and education

This Handbook presents current research on children and youth in ethnic minority families.

This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries.

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.

Play engages humans cognitively, emotionally, and physically at all ages.

This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care.

This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education.

This book offers a perspective on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood (ESDEC) that is far removed from the 'business as usual' notion of an extended, predominantly environmental, educational curriculum for preschools.

This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice.

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

This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze.

This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics of biology, psychology, and culture over time.

This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew's work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as 'out of place', that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood.

This book uses the example of a partnership journey between universities, schools, the local health industry as well as a number of government organisations which worked to ensure the growth of physical education in primary education.

This book collects multiple disciplinary voices which explore current research and perspectives to discuss how spirituality is understood, interpreted and applied in a range of contexts.

This book analyzes educational management in the context of developing effective schools in South-Eastern European countries and situates the discussion within ongoing education debates in EU countries.

This book addresses the development of our understanding of the abuse and neglect in the lives of children with disabilities.

This monograph describes the development and use of a 3D visualization teaching-learning trajectory for elementary age learners.

This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE), with particular focus on evidence-based practices.

This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time.

In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child.

This book addresses the cognitive, social, and psychological dimensions that shape students' mathematics experience to help students become more capable, cooperative, and confident in the process of engaging mathematics.

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies.

This book presents the concept of group-centered prevention and provides explanations and exercises for learning the method and teaching it to others.

This book offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which children, youth and adults may find their paths to mathematics.

In an era in which environmental education has been described as one of the most pressing educational concerns of our time, further insights are needed to understand how best to approach the learning and teaching of environmental education in early childhood education.

This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood education have new theoretical tools to guide their research practices.

Dieses Lehrbuch für die elementarpädagogische Ausbildung und Praxis liefert das professionelle Handwerkszeug für eine erfolgreiche Bildungsarbeit im Elementarbereich, das für die zentralen Bildungsbereiche des Vorschulalters beschrieben wird: für den sozio-emotionalen, sprachlichen, motorischen und den mathematischen Bereich und darüber hinaus für die übergreifenden Bereiche Spielen, Lernen und die Selbstregulation.

Dieses Lehrbuch für die elementarpädagogische Ausbildung und Praxis liefert das professionelle Handwerkszeug für eine erfolgreiche Bildungsarbeit im Elementarbereich, das für die zentralen Bildungsbereiche des Vorschulalters beschrieben wird: für den sozio-emotionalen, sprachlichen, motorischen und den mathematischen Bereich und darüber hinaus für die übergreifenden Bereiche Spielen, Lernen und die Selbstregulation.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration of a theoretical framework supporting Early Childhood Science Education research and teaching best practices.

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 book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education.

This book explores the inherent tension in civic education.

This book focuses on improving well-being among young children.

This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies.

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 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.

This volume focuses on very young children's (aged 0-8) rights in a digital world.

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 provides different perspectives on the concept of children's rights, including policy, educational, and children's perspectives.

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 presents the Preschool Peer Social Intervention (PPSI), a manualized comprehensive social curriculum to enhance peer-interaction for pre-schoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in three key domains: play, interaction, and conversation.

This edited book provides an overview of unstructured and structured play scenarios crucial to developing young children's awareness, interest, and ability to learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in informal and formal education environments.

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 book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?

This book focuses on the literacy beliefs and practices of parents and children from Asian and Latinx heritage backgrounds.

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

This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration of a theoretical framework supporting Early Childhood Science Education research and teaching best practices.

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 book provides a revitalised account of the study of children's drawing by outlining a departure from existing approaches privileging developmentalist accounts and presenting drawing as a specialised human endeavour separated from other material entanglements constituting children's everyday experiences.