Pre-school and kindergarten

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations.

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills.

Originally published in 1986.

Social studies is at the heart of content in education and takes on society's best hopes for helping children become good citizens and winners in the global economy.

This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place.

This accessible text encourages readers to understand and confidently engage with distinctive early years pedagogy.

Harry loves to hop, and believes he is a 'hopper' - but not everyone agrees.

This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes.

Designed for busy teachers, Drama Lessons: Ages 4-7 provides tried and tested lesson plans which will help you to make your drama lessons fun learning experiences.

Now in a revised and updated third edition incorporating a decade of additional research and classroom experience, this book has helped over 100,000 primary-grades teachers understand and successfully apply the science of reading in phonics instruction.

International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy evaluates the use and impact of digital devices for social interaction, language acquisition, and early literacy.

Ella O'Connor desperately wants to tell a story, but every time she opens her mouth, her words disappear.

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

Offering an in-depth exploration of the distinctive features of the play development and learning of toddlers, this book provides useful materials, strategies and tools that can be used by practitioners supporting toddlers at this significant age.

Partnership with Parents in Early Childhood Settings examines how practitioners can work effectively with parents and families, acknowledging the complex nature of these relationships.

Effective Practice in the Early Years supports students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early years, Early Childhood and related disciplines studying professional practice in the early years.

In every classroom, there is a person who cares about the way children learn, grow, and feelthe teacher!

Every child belongs.

A major influence on the education of young children since the late nineteenth century, the philosophical and practical tenets of Frobelian early childhood education require urgent re-articulation in light of current debate and developments in research and policy.

What are schemas and why should you know about them?

A Therapist's Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying that knowledge in therapeutic practice.

Children learn in contexts, and the spaces, places and people they come into contact with have a deep influence on their development.

This highly practical book shows how staff in early years settings can implement simple changes to make positive behaviour a reality for all.

Sharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare.

Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children's academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions.

This practical and accessible guide tackles the challenges that busy childcare educators face with their mental health in what is a wonderful, rewarding, but often exhausting role.

When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline.

Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the children's workforce, including carers, qualified teachers, parents and other adults.

Most preschool teachers have musical instruments in their classrooms, but may not realize they can use them for science explorations.

Rewilding Children's Imaginations is a practical and creative resource designed to engage children in the natural world through folktales, storytelling, and artmaking.

Managing the New Bank Technology is a practical action-oriented guide for bank CEOs, executives, business students, and boards.

_______________ 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.

Examining Levels of Involvement in the Early Years studies the theory and rationale behind using young children's levels of involvement as a tool for enhancing their experiential learning in diverse settings by exploring values, beliefs, ideology, resourcefulness and environmental contexts.

This book takes a detailed look at the complex area of young children's play as it is understood in the early twenty-first century, and in particular at the relationships between play, learning and teaching which are enacted in early childhood settings, across countries as different as England and the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain?

Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are increasingly to be heard in this field, as well as discussing the importance of paradigm, politics and ethics.

What do early childhood practitioners need to know about reflection and reflective practice?

There is a growing interest in understanding how early years care and education is organised and experienced internationally.

Teaching Young Children Mathematics provides a comprehensive overview of mathematics instruction in the early childhood classroom.

Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change by Tracey Friesen is a practical guide for media-makers, funders, and activists who share the common goal of creating an impact with their work.

Growing Up with Technology explores the role of technology in the everyday lives of three- and four-year-old children, presenting the implications for the children's continuing learning and development.

This volume demonstrates how the ethnographic approach to research demanded by a 'Literacy as Social Practice' perspective can generate fresh insights into what happens when young children engage with schooled literacy tasks.

This book studies children's and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young.

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

In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set out targets aimed at creating a safer, more prosperous, and more equitable world.

The four nations of the UK each have distinctive policy and curricula in relation to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

Die Studie untersucht Mikroprozesse der Interaktionen von Kleinkindern und Pädagog*innen in Eingewöhnungen.

This multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions.

Take the time to watch, wonder, ask questions, talk about, and explore the world of science with your child!