Pre-school and kindergarten

Assessment and Evaluation for Transformation in Early Childhood establishes a new, democratic and participatory approach to assessment and evaluation in early childhood.

The characters in this book communicate in different ways.

Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years.

Learn how to integrate nature-based pedagogy in this practical and inviting book.

Educating Young Children in WPA Nursery Schools, the first full-length national study of the WPA nursery school program, helps to explain why universal preschool remains an elusive goal.

Research findings repeatedly show that music is one of the subjects which teachers feel least confident to tackle.

This book presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children between one and five years old.

Bringing together valuable insights from research and practice undertaken at the world-famous Pen Green Centre, Democratising Leadership in the Early Years illustrates how settings and practitioners can develop and maintain forms of leadership which foster collaborative practices across and within settings and services.

Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective uniquely incorporates dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD into one volume, offering practical advice on how to manage each of these disorders.

This book guides you through what you need to know about Early Years Teacher Status step by step.

Create an inclusive classroom with these fun and accessible activities for science and computing lessons.

This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary students reading achievement.

This volume is a collection of articles that showcase new research that is emerging from laboratory schools, guided by principles of applied developmental science.

Did you know that emotions boost our memory?

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.

Working with young children on the autistic spectrum and supporting them as they learn can be fascinating, challenging, often overwhelmingly difficult, but more than anything else, hugely rewarding.

The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China.

This book highlights the significance of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding children and childhoods in the Indian context.

Contemporary Issues in Childhood provides undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the current influences and challenges that surround childhood, families and communities.

Now in a fully updated second edition, Nature Education and Young Children remains a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching.

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children's rights.

This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education.

Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level will assist educators as they support students in the mastery of vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills required by the Common Core State Standards.

Upbringing, education and supervision in groups are one of the most important ways of early childhood socialisation.

To address Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for reading and language, today's educators strive to help their students develop higher-level understanding with challenging materials.

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.

This third edition of Good Practice in the Early Years includes chapters on current key issues for early years practitioners such as multi-professional working, inclusion, child protection and children's rights and participation.

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television.

Can one be too young to play outside?

Play is critical to children's well-being and development.

Fully updated to reflect the current status and understandings regarding outdoor provision within early childhood education frameworks across the UK, this new edition shows early years practitioners how to get the very best from outdoor play and learning for the enjoyment, health and education of young children up to age seven.

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

Originally published in 1989, this book differed from others on the topic of microcomputers and education at the time, in that it focuses on the influence that microcomputer technology has on children in their early years, specially pre-school and elementary ages.

What does it mean to be human?

Do you know how to manage physical risks and encourage children to go out and test their own boundaries without fear or failure?

Wie funktioniert ein Stromkreislauf?

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

Etwa 30 Prozent der Kinder an deutschen Grundschulen haben einen Migrationshintergrund und erwerben Deutsch als Zweitsprache.

Get prepared to teach in a child-care or preschool setting with The Everything Book for Child Care and Preschool!

This book gives information, ideas and principles for music with three to five year olds that are both down-to-earth and up-to-date.

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

How do we begin to understand diversity in early childhood in order to combat biases?

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers' agency, peers' agency and parents' agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes.

Now you can implement the ideas and research findings of Jean Casey's Early Literacy to help students become successful readers and writers.

Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of Goldman with a child's religious thought, there had hitherto been no comparable book on child morality to complete the developmental picture of the time.

What if you could use a handpicked set of tools to help children redirect their classroom behavior from dysfunctional to positive?

This volume summarizes research on important topics in cognitive research and discusses what must be done to apply this research in early elementary classrooms.

Outdoor education offers children special contexts for play and exploration, real experiences, and contact with the natural world and the community.

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.