Pre-school and kindergarten

The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education.

Studying for an Early Childhood Degree, based on the practices of The Pen Green Centre for children and families, exemplifies how student-practitioners can foster strong communities of learners and create student-teacher connections that remain long after studies are complete.

Originally published in 1940.

An Educator's Guide to Infant and Toddler Development is a comprehensive and approachable guide to the growth, learning and development of children from birth to age 3.

Evaluating Early Years Practice in Your School focuses on raising Early Years practitioners' confidence so that they worry less and achieve more.

Das Buch erörtert zunächst das pädagogische Selbstverständnis der Kindertageseinrichtungen als Bildungs-, Erziehungs- und Betreuungseinrichtung vor dem Hintergrund sich wandelnder gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen.

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence, from delight, surprise and love to anger, distress and fear.

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning?

This text provides a comprehensive understanding of the foundational literacy knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to guide emerging readers and writers in early childhood.

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

This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context.

In the early years sector all practitioners are now expected to engage in work-based research, as a means of improving practice and demonstrating leadership.

Drawing on work from within the developing field of childhood studies, this text examines theoretical and policy driven understandings of the current position of children in society.

Over the past few years bilingualism has come to be seen not as a hinderance to assimiliation but as an asset which, properly nurtured, will benefit children's linguistic awareness, cultural sensitivity and cognitive functioning.

John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four.

Even the youngest children in primary schools are now required not only to make art, but also to study it, developing an understanding of the huge variety of art and craft from different times and places.

This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research.

This volume extends the knowledge base supporting research-informed child care for infants and toddlers, while simultaneously highlighting areas of study ripe for future research.

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating.

The third edition of this essential book presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children's developing thinking and understanding.

This insightful book re-examines the concept of student voice through an exploration of children's implicit rights to silence and non-participation.

Fast Childcare in Public Preschools presents an ethnographic examination of the implementation of fast-policy management models and the efforts of teachers to use these to improve their work organization, and the frictions this brings.

In particular, this book uses alternative theoretical perspectives to focus on how young children are 'doing' gender in kindergarten classroom.

Providing an accessible introduction to attachment thinking, this practical book offers early years practitioners' advice on translating attachment principles into practice in their settings.

This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by young children and adolescents.

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit, this practical resource is designed to help young children understand how the brain affects ways we see and interpret the world.

The second volume in this Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries focuses on teacher and family perspectives of early childhood education and care from 19 different countries around the world.

This book grew out of Margaret Fletcher's many years' experience with nursery school children.

The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regulation (SR) as a critical skill for young children to develop if they are to go on to lead happy and fulfilled lives.

This book explores the historical and philosophical ideas underpinning practice in early childhood and primary education.

In a convenient large-size format, this book presents the first research-based, comprehensive program designed to support high school students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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.

In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students.

This book challenges the current state of childhood studies by exploring children and young people's agency and relationships.

In der Interdisziplinären Frühförderung ist das Thema Kindesentwicklung (Entwicklungspädiatrie) ein wesentlicher Arbeitsschwerpunkt für die kinderärztlichen und therapeutischen Fachkräfte.

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

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens.

Early Childhood Studies: Enhancing Employability and Professional Practice explores essential aspects of best practice within children's services in order to enhance employability skills, identifying how and why key aspects of best practice have emerged within children's services.

This book offers an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges and contributions of urban primary schools.

Originally published in 1992.

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook.

Developing Baseline Communication Skills is a practical resource designed to fit with baseline assessments in primary school.

Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of 'parenting'.

Transform your play area with these environmentally friendly DIY projects for the Early Years!

'The book gives excellent insight of current Early Years topics by covering international educational approaches and discussing the need to professionalise the sector.

Supporting Student Mental Health is a guide to the basics of identifying and supporting students with mental health challenges.

Supporting Early Childhood Practice Through Difficult Times encourages early childhood students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in light of challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory pressures.