Pre-school and kindergarten

This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability-and what enables it-in the early childhood field.

Digital devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers, are becoming commonplace in young children's lives for play, entertainment, learning and communication.

This authoritative volume provides state-of-the-art practices for supporting the approximately 20% of today's K-12 students who have emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) that hinder school success.

Art has always been an important part of the primary school experience.

Do you want to understand young children's development in greater depth?

Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it.

This vital resource for early years and primary school trainees and practitioners explores a range of social and therapeutic strategies and interventions that will successfully support all children's sense of belonging.

Children are significant consumers of services such as health, welfare, educational institutions and the environment.

Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children.

In this series, you'll find more creative ways to use a tube sock, milk carton, and other inexpensive things found around the house than you ever imagined.

Engage young childrens minds and capture their undivided attention with 17 more stories, storytelling tips, and new activities.

Young Children's Play: Development, Disabilities, and Diversity is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to age 8 years that introduces readers to various play types and strategies and helps them determine when intervention might be needed.

Young Children Playing and Learning in a Digital Age explores the emergence of the digital age and young children's experiences with digital technologies at home and in educational environments.

The Learning Mentor Toolkit provides all of the resources necessary to recruit, train and supervise adult learning mentors looking to support children and young people within the school environment.

Using play as the method against which all others are compared, this book presents the strengths and weaknesses of different models of teaching, examines various methods of guiding young children's behavior, and shows how to create and maintain a positive learning environment.

Can you recognize and tell the difference between gifted and talented children?

Through the lens of Turbulence Theory, this volume offers students and scholars an innovative toolkit for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on teachers, families, and students.

Theories of Early Childhood Education provides a comprehensive introduction to the various theoretical perspectives influential in early childhood education, from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire.

This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings.

This book offers an engaging exploration of artistic expression in early childhood education.

Investigating children's learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children's Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning.

Now in a fully updated third edition, The Early Childhood Curriculum demonstrates how to confidently teach using inquiry-based methods that address the whole child while also meeting and exceeding academic standards.

Confidence, emotional intelligence and resilience are vital to children's mental wellbeing, and this book gives early years practitioners all the tools they need to promote these skills in young children.

Though children's wellbeing is high on the agenda for policy makers, the welfare of the professionals looking after them is often taken for granted.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

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.

Easy Daily Planshas everything a teacher needs for a complete years worth of daily plans!

Rethinking Nutrition provides science- and practice-based information to meet young children's nutritional and developmental needs and establish healthy patterns with food.

Understand the important milestones of development in children in five developmental domains: physical and motor, social and emotional, communication and language, cognitive, and approaches to learning.

Stories, Pictures and Reality follows two children as they work out the reality status of stories and pictures, with a daily parent-observer record from the birth of the first child until the second is eight, a span of eleven years in all.

Die Entwicklung von Kindern ist ein empfindlicher, nicht selten fragiler Prozess.

First published in 1917, Physical Education in Relation to School Life views the problems of growth and health in relation to education.

One of the most problematic areas in the teaching and development of literacy appears to concern children's interactions with non-fiction books.

An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work.

Through its unique integration of curriculum and learning principles, Early Childhood Curriculum: A Constructivist Perspective, 2nd Edition fosters authentic, developmentally appropriate practice for both preschool and early elementary classrooms.

Maurice Sykes has made advocating for and advancing high-quality early childhood education his lifes work.

This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the mental health of young children through outdoor play.

Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value.

High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years.

Adopting a learner-centred approach that places an emphasis on hands-on child SL methodology, this book illustrates the practices used to teach young second language learners in different classroom contexts: (1) English-as-an-Additional-Language-or-Dialect (EAL/D) - both intensive EAL/D and EAL/D in the mainstream(2) Language-Other-Than-English (LOTE)(3) Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL),(4) Indigenous(5) Foreign-Language (FL).

Mit der Verbindung von Inklusion und Partizipation setzen die Herausgeberinnen einen neuen Akzent in der Inklusionsdebatte.

Why are development discourses of the 'poor child' in need of radical revision?

This innovative and thought-provoking book invites you to move away from strategies of control and toward relationships of trust with young children.

Noah knew he was different.

This guide provides insights, case studies and resources to enable anyone working in early years settings to identify and understand the individual needs of children from diverse backgrounds and the steps that can be taken to support and extend their learning.

'This text will be an invaluable addition to the reading of students and tutors alike.

Why do children get involved with bullying?

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

Across the globe the work of early childhood educators, who are predominantly women, is misunderstood, underpaid and undervalued.