Pre-school and kindergarten

The Narrative Approach to Informed Consent: Empowering Young Children's Rights and Meaningful Participation is a practical guide for researchers who want to engage young children in rights-based, participatory research.

This new edition of the leading book in autism and early years practice continues to provide excellent guidance for all early years students and practitioners on how to work with young children who have autism or who appear on the autistic spectrum.

For all involved in teaching young children, this timely book offers the necessary tool with which to develop a broad, creative and inspirational visual arts programme.

Early childhood education has reached a level of unprecedented national and international focus.

Recent decades have seen an upsurge of research with and about young children, their families and communities.

A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life.

Probing the shortcomings of contemporary early years provision, whilst offering practical and informed solutions, Early Childhood Education Redefined at once celebrates the progress made in this field since the publication of the 'Start Right Report' (1994), whilst also calling for further changes to ensure that all children are able to 'start right', to become effective, independent learners.

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers.

This accessible guide to child development is for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines and for early years practitioners.

There is nothing that children love more than a good story.

Children are spending less timebeing outside in nature, playing,imagining, and learning abouttheir surroundings.

Synthesizing cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, this book explores how young children acquire knowledge in the "e;real world"e; and describes practical applications for early childhood classrooms.

Organized by topic, each of the 20 units has a 5-day plan, providing a week of activities.

Heuristic Play is a tightly described, but freely accessed activity, using a specific range of 'found' or everyday objects, and, in its pure sense, is only really applicable to a specific age range (from 12 months to about two and a half).

It is now officially acknowledged that outdoor play is extremely important for young children's development and that a few old bikes and a climbing frame just will not do.

This book seeks to bring together the two disciplines of informal and outdoor education, and challenges readers to think differently about outdoor and adventure education.

"e;One feature of this book that sets it apart from others is the care that is taken to clarify the authors interpretation of the phrase 'teaching for understanding'.

Children love outdoor play.

The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography is the most authoritative account of the leading developmental scientists from around the world.

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

This book explores how poststructural theory can make an important contribution to the growing body of work on playwork as an academic field of practice and research.

What does gender equity mean for early years practitioners?

This fully updated new edition of Teaching Practice for Early Childhood will help student and recently graduated early childhood teachers make the most of their teaching in a variety of early years' settings.

Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood.

Diverse international perspectives on the ways in which young children's learning and care may be supported converge in this book.

The Inclusive Classroom: Creating a Cherished Experience through Montessori brings together experts in Montessori Education and Special Education for the 3- to 6-year-old child in Montessori school.

The benefits of an optimistic thinking style have slowly been seeping into early childhood teaching practice through research on resiliency, leadership, health, and what has been termed "e;grit.

This book is the individual guidebook used to support the six 'Pip and Bunny' storybooks.

'Every Day a Good Day is an excellent classroom management tool for newly qualified early years practitioners.

From clean-up solutions to storage ideas to inventive cost-cutting strategies, and everything in between, this book will truly help you keep your sanity in the classroom!

This delightful visual book provides an accessible introduction to how play affects the holistic development and brain growth of children from birth to five years.

To attain EYPS, candidates must demonstrate that they can establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children.

This light-hearted sourcebook for teachers and librarians describes food-related activities, including stories, rhymes, fingerplays, crafts, cooking and tasting experiences, and short skits, designed to delight young minds while teaching skills.

Published in 1998.

Investigating the experiences of a group of female students as they journey into and through higher education, and into work with and for children, Journeys through Childhood Studies offers a critical analysis of the intersectional influences and effects of social division on experiences of higher education and career trajectories.

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practicethe success of children they teach depends on it.

Coastlines, rivers and natural waters have a huge amount to offer young children, providing a unique environment for their learning and development.

Understanding the Te Whariki Approach is a much-needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand.

In preschool, children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family.

Everything we learn, every way we influence others and every relationship we form hangs around a complex interplay of behaviours, feelings and thoughts.

In every setting there are children who struggle to communicate.

Is my singing good enough?

"e;This is a stimulating book with much to interest, inspire and challenge students undertaking early childhood studies courses and existing early years practitioners .

When teachers implement the project approach to learning, young children can follow their own real-world interests to gain deeper understanding.

This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world.

The child-care industryessential to American families and to the American economyis at risk of complete collapse.

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