'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.
Largely as a result of social policies and cultural factors, the Nordic countries continually score high in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children's outcomes.
By focusing on key figures in early years education and care, this book considers the influential thinkers and ground-breaking approaches that have revolutionized practice.
This book provides an in-depth look on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Early Childhood Education (ECE), two domains where major joint research is needed.
Trainee and beginning teachers often find it hard to plan for and teach good art lessons as there is little guidance on subject knowledge and outstanding practice.
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 book fills a growing demand for contemporary books on Montessori education and how it applies to childhood learning and education in the 21st Century.
Eine Vielzahl von Faktoren wie Mobilität, Migration, Inklusion, berufliche Übergänge und Medien prägen heutige individuelle Entwicklungs- und Erziehungsprozesse.
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.
Das Buch enthält die Vorträge ausgewiesener Expertinnen und Experten verschiedener bildungswissenschaftlicher Bezugsdisziplinen, die vor dem Hintergrund des 10.
'This is a timely book that effectively challenges the current emphasis on a homogeneous approach to teaching, learning, and assessment in early literacy.
This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches.
The Third Edition of this popular book reflects contemporary research as well as thinking about the role and value of play in learning and development, within and beyond early childhood.
This book presents children's literature as a platform for learning and helping young readers develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to thrive in an interconnected and diverse global society.
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.
From Oops to Aha pulls back the curtain on learning from mistakes in four public school Kindergarten classrooms: urban, charter, Montessori, and suburban.
Kathrin Borg-Tiburcy untersucht mithilfe teilnehmender Videographie kindliche Ausdrucks- und Gestaltungsprozesse im Alltag einer Kindergartengruppe und fragt danach, wie ästhetische Sinnzusammenhänge entstehen und gemeinschaftlich von Kindern hergestellt werden.
In der gegenwärtigen Bildungsdebatte setzt sich zunehmend die Erkenntnis durch, dass das Lernen von Kindern und Jugendlichen nicht allein auf staatliche Institutionen, wie Kindertagesstätten und Schulen, begrenzt ist.
Debates frequently focus on the role of training as an indicator of quality, but far less attention is given to understanding how to work effectively with young children, and how the knowledge to do this is built.
This book conceptualizes the 'lived spaces' of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors researching within diverse theoretical frameworks.
This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide.
This book analyses and synthesises past and current approaches to STEM Education in the Early Years, particularly the role of digital technologies and play based pedagogies, and provides a look forward to a new way of conceiving STEM Education.
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 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.
Play is an underlying theme of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) but it is often a challenge for practitioners to provide a play based curriculum.