Pre-school and kindergarten

Fully updated, this new edition provides an introduction to normal, healthy physical development for all professionals who specialise in working with children.

Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Childhood Education provides a basic introduction to applied behavior analysis and overviews the highly beneficial role that it can play in early childhood education for both typically developing children and those with special needs.

Introducing Dialogic Pedagogy presents some of the ideas of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin concerning dialogism in a way that will engage and inspire those studying early childhood education.

The kindergarten--as institution, as educational philosophy, and as social reform movement--is one of Germany's most important contributions to the world.

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else's 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice, training and education.

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

Play has always been vital to the field of early childhood education, for teacher educators and early years teachers, as a pedagogy and way of organizing learning.

This book offers practical advice and guidance on how children can be helped to use language to transform knowledge and experience into understanding across the curriculum, and thus become active learners.

The inclusion of technology among the National Curriculum foundation subjects is an exciting , but at the same time somewhat daunting challenge for primary teachers.

This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young childrens print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development.

Mathematiklernen beginnt nicht erst in der Grundschule, sondern bereits in der KiTa.

Discover Creativity with 2-5 Year Olds explores young children's creative development and shares important insight as to why and how practitioners can encourage their natural curiosity.

This beautifully illustrated, therapeutic picture book tells the story of Stan the Giraffe.

This beautifully illustrated, therapeutic picture book tells the story of Stan the Giraffe.

What are schemas and why do they matter?

On its 30th anniversary, public acceptance of Head Start is high, yet understanding of its goals is low, and evaluation research is limited in quality and scope.

Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and 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.

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system.

Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and interactions in group settings play in the development of children's personal, emotional and social skills.

This volume discusses the various challenges faced by children in India from different perspectives such as education, psychology, and sociology during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Calling All Superheroes highlights the enormous potential of superhero play in supporting learning and development in early childhood.

Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties.

Are you looking for one book that gives a comprehensive account of primary/elementary and early years English, language and literacy teaching?

How do children determine which identity becomes paramount as they grow into adolescence and early adulthood?

This accessible text provides an international study of critical educational leaders who established the foundation for Early Childhood Education across continents in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to emotions, temperament, personality, moral, prosocial and antisocial development in childhood and adolescence.

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children's vulnerability and to the constitution of the 'good' future citizen in developed countries.

An essential resource that all teachers will appreciate!

This timely and accessible volume explores how our understanding of research in child development can help cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes children need for informed and thoughtful participation in society by viewing the curriculum through a developmental lens.

This book shows how different types of SEN can impact on a child's learning and what practitioners can do to help.

80% of primary aged children have been on a diet.

With growing concerns over declining levels of school readiness and physical activity, this book highlights the importance of quality early movement experiences and explores the connection between poor early Physical Development opportunities and later difficulties in the classroom.

Detailed accounts of two influential initiatives of the 1990s, whose educational and political lessons remain highly relevant: systemic and pedagogic reform in one of Britain's largest cities, and the controversial 'three wise men' government enquiry into primary teaching to which it led.

Are you ready to take your child-care business to the next level?

Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book shows how to make use of the learning power of story-time for young children, providing original, themed stories and associated learning activities to promote young children's cognitive and emotional development.

What can we do to help ELL students understand English?

Cognitive style, a psychological construct, characterizes individual differences in styles of perceiving, remembering, thinking and judging.

'This is a timely book that effectively challenges the current emphasis on a homogeneous approach to teaching, learning, and assessment in early literacy.

Gender is a broad and complex concept, the impact of which can start even before a baby is born.

Inspiring Ideas to Support Early Maths and Literacy takes a play-based approach and draws on popular stories and rhymes to cover the key areas of mathematics and literacy.

Doing Children's Geographies provides a useful resource for all those embarking on research with young people.

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education.

Belle loves to try and get involved with all of the things that her big bother, Pete, can do, but she's not quite big enough to sprint or swim or read.

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 book provides an overview of current practice, policy, and research in early childhood education across the UK.

This new edition of Ann Lewis's widely acclaimed text has been substantially revised and updated to take into account the recent revisions to the National Curriculum and the guidance of the Code of Practice.

What do young people really do with digital media?

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents.