Early childhood care and education

This book represents the outcome of the joint activities of a group of scholars who were concerned about the lack of international research in play for children from birth to 3 years.

Science is more than a compilation of facts and figures, although one would not know that from observing classroom lessons in science in elementary schools in many parts of the world.

Choosing a name for your baby is really exciting - it can also feel like a huge decision that you're terrified of getting wrong!

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 traces the birth and evolution of the creche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different from what we know today.

This book explores the effects of the REACH program (Recruiting and Enlightening through Access to and Communication with High-need schools), a seven-year initiative devised to help find, attract, and prepare diverse teacher candidates interested in working with young children.

There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication.

This book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches.

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

This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people.

This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney.

This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales.

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts.

In an examination of the impact of education policy on Australia's diverse student population, this book asks if increasing the years of compulsory schooling can make the positive social impact its proponents claim.

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 argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created.

Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe.

Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programs examines the relationship between gifted and talented (G&T) education, school choice, and racialized tracking within New York City elementary schools.

This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness.

Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth.

Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development.

Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood.

This book examines differing classroom pedagogies in two early childhood programs serving vulnerable populations in Chicago, one program Reggio Emilia-inspired, while the other uses a more didactic pedagogy.

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.

Kohan offers a transformative, revolutionary, and more radical alternative theory and practice of philosophy for children.

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries.

This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale.

This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights.

Duncan and Conner demonstrate how collaborative research on early childhood education results in gains for educators, researchers, and children alike.

Drawing on empirical research amongst both Muslim schools' students and parents, this timely book examines the question of 'self-segregation' and Muslims in light of key policy developments around 'race', faith and citizenship.

This reconceptualizes the place of early childhood education within communities.

This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney.

This third edition showcases captivating full-color photographs, compelling case studies, engaging activities, and thought-provoking discussion points.

This book fills a growing demand for contemporary books on Montessori education and how it applies to childhood learning and education in the 21st Century.

Raising a child has never been more challenging.

Winner of the 2013 Nursery World Awards!

Winner of the 2013 Nursery World Awards!

To attain EYPS, candidates must demonstrate that they can establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) came into force in September 2008 and established a framework for providing learning, development and care for children from birth to five.

'This book is an essential starting point for practitioners who are new to Circle Time as it includes activities specifically for adults, helping to familiarise themselves with the process' - Early Years Update'This is an excellent book full of practical circle time activities and experiences.

'Chris Athey has made a major contribution to our understanding of how young children think and how educators and parents can best support their learning.

Providing high quality play experiences is an essential part of good early years education, but this can pose a challenge for practitioners who face pressure from a more didactic primary curriculum, and from parents worried that their children will fail to acquire essential skills and knowledge.

This book makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions, and their representations of their emotional worlds.

'This book is a welcome addition to the field of Early Childhood studies and would appeal to both students and professionals working with children and families in any area.

Research on early childhood brain development clearly shows the importance of storytime for toddlers.

How do you avoid pyjama dramas and get a toddler to play ball at bedtime?

GETTING READY TO START SCHOOL covers everything from choosing and applying for primary schools, to preparing your child in order to making their transition as smooth as possible, to what to expect once they get there, including the impact on parents, as they adapt to the politics of the school gate and to life fitting round the school days and terms.