Early childhood care and education

The book provides a comprehensive analyses of Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories implementation in modern preschool education.

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

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

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 provides an international perspective on teaching and learning geography in the primary classroom.

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 book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children's relationship with the media, avoiding the "e;risks and benefits"e; paradigm while examining very young children's interactions with film and television.

This collection brings together a diverse group of scholars from throughout the world who have grappled with and investigated the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the lives of young children.

This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhood Education in Finland.

This book provides a platform for male teachers to share how their professional and personal identities are enacted in the classroom.

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations.

This book explores policies and practices in special education in the early years, highlighting shared enablers and barriers.

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

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

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

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

This reference work is the first to examine pragmatic language disorders of clients in complex and underserved populations.

This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhood Education in Finland.

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

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

Recognizing the various ecological contexts that support children's development while amplifying voices from across the globe, this book challenges narrow interpretations of quality and best practice.

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

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

This book approaches STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) in early childhood education from multiple angles.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom.

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

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 explores the shifting geographies and contexts of children's play and learning.

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

This book focuses on the importance and role of adults in promoting music in the early years.

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 traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

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

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

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational well-being.

This book sets out a contemporary perspective on music education, highlighting complex intersections between informal, non-formal and formal practices and contexts.

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

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

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

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators.

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

This edited book focuses on affordances and limitations of e-books for early language and literacy, features and design of e-books for early language and literacy, print versus e-books in early language and literacy development, and uses of and guidelines for how to use e-books in school and home literacy practices.

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