Pre-school and kindergarten

Despite vast possible differences across geographic locations, cultural practices, community values, and curricular priorities, there are everyday events that are intimately familiar in the context of early childhood care and education centres.

This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children's spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom.

This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children's spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom.

This book challenges the developmentalist paradigm that dominates research into children and childhood, focusing on observation as a research method.

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

What do the Early Childhood Studies Graduate Practitioner Competencies (GPCs) mean in practice?

As an early childhood educator, you want every child to thrive, regardless of their abilities or learning style.

As an early childhood educator, you want every child to thrive, regardless of their abilities or learning style.

How Are You Feeling Now?

This book argues that developmental approaches to observation in childhood pedagogy are limiting, that there is an urgent need to unsettle and reimagine observation, proposing new postdevelopmental theories and modes of inquiry for educators.

Despite vast possible differences across geographic locations, cultural practices, community values, and curricular priorities, there are everyday events that are intimately familiar in the context of early childhood care and education centres.

The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age.

Deeply engage all young learners with a sense of agency and belongingWhat gives some early childhood classrooms that special buzz of learning?

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.

Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a movement that teaches reasoning and argumentative skills to children of all ages.

With the increased focus on providing for children's mental health, there is ever more demand for resources that will support educational settings to help children develop the skills needed to cope in today's world.

Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture.

This fully updated third edition of Learning Through Child Observation is a handbook for professionals working in, or students preparing to work in, children's services.

Create a warm and inviting place where children feel at home.

Leadership in Early Childhood is a practical resource for early childhood practitioners who want to understand how to create successful childcare and early education settings.

This book wants your kids to learn how to count using their bare body parts - fingers and toes.

There are so many fun things to do in Mr.

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.

Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide.

Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program.

Developmental milestones mark the significant progress children make throughout their early years.

Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program.

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activitiesChildren living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning.

Explore the unique and expansive learning opportunities offered by gardening with childrenGardens are where childrens imaginations engage nature, and the result is joyful learning.

Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovationLoose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play.

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

Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.

Help children participate in purposeful play to promote the development of a number of important skills.

More than one hundred math activities for young children that incorporate early learning standards.

All childcare professionals were children once, and how their parents responded to their emotional expressions affects how they respond to emotional expressions by children in their own care.

Children are sponges.

If children are to access all phonics teaching effectively, they first need to know how to tune into and manipulate the sounds specifically needed for reading.

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

This teaching resource provides staff in education settings and parents/carers with a comprehensive way of supporting children, aged 4-7, to learn that they have a right to feel safe and can talk with someone about anything, even if it feels awful or small.

This textbook develops early childhood teachers' capacity to effectively instruct democratic principles to our youngest citizens.

_______________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.

En este libro se reúnen y sistematizan diversas experiencias que suceden en los espacios de formación y en las instituciones del Nivel Inicial vinculadas a la enseñanza del arte, proponiendo un equilibrio entre teoría y práctica.

Getting young children active and supporting their physical development right from the start is essential for childrens all-round development and good health.

Getting young children active and supporting their physical development right from the start is essential for childrens all-round development and good health.

Imagine a learning space infused with life, where curiosity thrives and imaginations bloom.

Komm mit auf Jumas ReiseDie Steppe steckt voller Abenteuer für ein kleines Elefantenkind wie Juma!

Nurturing Babies explores the key processes behind how a child's mind and body develop in their first year, underpinned by the latest research in the fields of child development, psychology, health and well-being.

All young children are entitled to high-quality experiences when it comes to their education.

Nurturing Babies explores the key processes behind how a child's mind and body develop in their first year, underpinned by the latest research in the fields of child development, psychology, health and well-being.