Early childhood care and education

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

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

While few could dispute the need for Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for children and young people, this book explores the problems inherent in this educational practice.

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

This book is essential reading for any Early Years or Early Childhood Studies student.

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

This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students' bilingual identities in an Australian primary school.

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood.

This book explores how concepts and values of contemporary democracy are variously understood and applied in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on children and childhood and diversity.

Ethical considerations are raising new questions about the involvement and participation of children in research.

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

This book is devoted to the description and analysis of child population, rights to survival and development, culture and policies that Chinese government made in contemporary China.

An illustrated guide to the Montessori method of childhood development and education, written by the renowned Italian physician Dr.

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

Forest School continues to grow and develop, both in the UK and internationally.

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.

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

By exploring the key issues, arguments and messages that exist in the field this book provides an international, comparative look at aspects of early childhood education and care.

Der rasche gesellschaftliche Wandel hat die Frage nach der Qualität des Lernens wieder stärker in den Blickpunkt der öffentlichen Debatte gerückt.

Diese qualitativ-rekonstruktiv angelegte empirische Studie zeigt, dass die Konstruktionen von ‚Behinderung‘ und ‚Normalität‘ in ihren Erscheinungsformen von den Handlungsorientierungen frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte abhängig sind.

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

This book contains 13 chapters in which you can find various examples of the development of methods and/or systems supporting medical diagnostics and therapy, related to biomedical imaging, signal and image processing, biomechanics, biomaterials and artificial organs, modeling of biomedical systems, which, as the current research issues, were presented at the 22nd Polish BBE Conference held at the Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, in May 2021.

Shortlisted for the 2012 Nursery World Awards!

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.

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

If you work in the early years, you have probably heard of Montessori and Bronfenbrenner - but have you heard of Bavolek or Fisher?

Margaret Carr's seminal work on Learning Stories was first published by SAGE in 2001, and this widely acclaimed approach to assessment has since gained a huge international following.

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 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.

La petite enfance constitue une période clé pour favoriser la réussite scolaire de l'enfant.

How can the lived experience of practitioners illuminate the complexities of emotional and ethical care in managing a day care nursery?

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

This Handbook explores the multidisciplinary field of childhood studies through a uniquely global lens.

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

Leadership in the early years is about using your knowledge, skills, personality and experience to positively influence practice.

'A much needed book that uniquely brings together policy and practice in early childhood education and care across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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

Includes CD-Rom These games will be invaluable for those working with small groups of young people who find it difficult to behave and co-operate with their peers.