Early childhood care and education

This Fourth Edition of Language and Literacy in the Early Years has been fully revised and updated to reflect current professional interests and the latest developments in the field.

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

An understanding of Child Development is necessary for early childhood students as it underpins all early year's practice and curricula.

Working with Babies and Children is essential for all who work with children under three due to its combination of theory and practice, clear writing, and pedagogical material.

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.

Kindergarten is no longer just a time when children play and sit in a circle.

'I found this book to be very useful and would recommend it to all infant teachers, especially those working with children with special needs.

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

Developing the building blocks for mathematics.

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

Making a play-based curriculum work in early years settings.

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

Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other.

Simone Lehrl legt eine umfassende Studie zur Konzeptualisierung und Messung häuslicher Lernumwelten im Vorschulalter vor und zeigt darüber hinaus, welche Aspekte der häuslichen Lernumwelt für die kindliche Kompetenzentwicklung bedeutsam sind.

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

This book is a concise and accessible guide to observation as a tool for supporting learning for children aged 0 - 5.

Was ist Moral?

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

Den Gegenstand des Buchs bilden physische, psychische und sexuelle Formen häuslicher Gewalt gegen Kinder und Eltern, Frauen und Männer.

Involving Parents in their Children's Learning is the story of the pioneering work of the Pen Green Centre for children and families.

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 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.

Kommunizieren, miteinander sprechen, interagieren – darum geht es in der gesamten Kindheit.

This book, written by an international team of experienced researchers, investigates unique and dynamic approaches to key issues in policy transformation, curriculum reforms and teacher training in three cultures - China, Japan and the United States - in a globalized world.

'This informative and wide-ranging book argues persuasively for the value of multiple perspectives, both international and disciplinary, in the study and practice of early childhood education, because they feed our imaginations and provoke us to think.

Taking the discussion about cultural diversity beyond the usual topics of anti-racism and inclusion but without overlooking these issues, this book considers current debates around the alleged failure of multiculturalism, and encourages practitioners to utilise their own cultural backgrounds and experiences as a way of developing their teaching.

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

`This book gives a thorough, detailed account of mentoring, with accompanying case studies which will be invaluable to anyone undertaking the role.

Es ist ein zentrales Anliegen von Bildung, Sachverhalte aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu sehen.

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

This book evaluates recent early childhood education policies on the basis of a '3A2S' framework, which refers to accessibility, affordability, accountability, sustainability, and social justice.

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

Michael Schetsche und Renate-Berenike Schmidt Unterwegs im Bermuda-Dreieck von Sexualverhalten, Sexualmoral und sexueller Sozialisation Wenn man dem Buchtitel folgt, handelt dieser Sammelband von ‚sexueller Verwa- losung‘ – was immer dies auch genau heißen mag.

This book, drawing from internationally renowned scales like Bayley and Gesell, develops a child developmental assessment scale based on research data from Chinese children.

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

Your teacher training or professional development course will now probably include Masters level assessment and credits as teaching 'becomes an M-level profession' and a greater emphasis is placed on helping teachers develop deeper understandings about aspects of learning and teaching through a higher level of critical reflection.

From high impact energy injuries to fragility fractures in the elderly, the wide variability in shoulder fractures have made them simultaneously the most common and challenging of shoulder injuries.

This book explores the construct of empathy and its connection with education.

The result of collaboration between students and researchers across Europe as part of an Erasmus+ funded project, this book sheds light on power structures and exclusion processes in education from the perspectives of young people.