Pre-school and kindergarten

All About Autism is an accessible and informative guide for primary school teachers, designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of autism and enhance their toolkit with practical, adaptable strategies to support autistic children in their care.

Based on solid theoretical and empirical analyses, this book provides a first and fresh introduction to the recent development of children's museums in China, along with their educational and social impacts as an informal learning environment for children, families, and society in general.

Widely regarded as the authoritative work on the principles and practice of applied behavior analysis (ABA), this indispensable volume is now in a revised and expanded second edition.

Written to support the use of the Thought Bubbles picture books, this guidebook has been created to help teachers and practitioners initiate 'nurturing conversations' and cultivate resilience in young children.

Preschool is a time of wonder when curiosity, development, and learning intersect.

Learning history is remembered by many teachers as a passive process involving 'learning dates'.

Connecting with dual language learners (DLLs) is a growing reality among early childhood educators, who need to learn practical, proven strategies to reach these students.

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society.

This accessible guide will be an invaluable resource for early years practitioners looking to make a positive difference in their settings by using action research or teacher enquiry.

Taking the body as a locus for discussion, Rachael S.

Child-led learning in the early years allows children to thrive while making accelerated progress.

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

How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?

In order to effectively practise as an early childhood educator it is essential to understand the theories, policies and pedagogy that shape the discipline.

Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development?

Young children are born into a digital world and it is not unusual to see preschool children intuitively swiping screens and confidently pressing buttons.

Movement-play, put simply, is encouraging physical activity in a child-led manner for the benefit of children's health, learning and wellbeing.

Written expressly for preschool teachers, this engaging book explains the whats, whys, and how-tos of implementing best practices for instruction in the preschool classroom.

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.

This book aims to broaden the teaching repertoires of pre-service and in-service early childhood teachers so they can better meet the needs of the children they teach.

This book looks at the challenges of restructuring services and working with people with different training and working practices.

Find the tools and knowledge you need to build resilience in all children from an early age through appropriate interactions and conversations.

This extremely practical and child-focused book gives you the tools you need to make sure all the children in your care are included and involved in the play opportunities of your setting.

The field of early childhood education and the science of psychology have a long and closely intertwined history.

Bringing together the essential theory, research and policy with examples from practice, Work-based Practice in the Early Years: A Guide for Students provides a complete guide to successful work placements for early years students.

This comprehensive guide to the core areas of early learning and childcare is designed to equip students to synthesise theory, research and practice to become reflective, evidence-based practitioners.

Build the home-school connection to prepare for kindergarten!

Children are most engaged - and therefore learn best - when they are following their own interests.

Teaching and learning literacy in the early years can be a joyful, explorative and meaningful experience.

Let's All Play is packed with enjoyable, easy to do literacy activities for young children.

This is the perfect book for teachers who have typically developing young children ages 3-6, as well as children with special needs in their classrooms.

This evidence-based text explores children's health and wellbeing from birth to adolescence, taking into account the familial, cultural, social, economic, environmental and global contexts of their lives.

I began reading this book in the morning and could not put it down until I had finished the final chapter!

The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts draws from a growing body of research on how and why various aspects of social relationships and contexts contribute to children's social and academic functioning within school settings.

This definitive resource provides a comprehensive range of activities and materials enabling you to equip your staff with the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to collaborate effectively with parents as part of their early years practice.

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

This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia.

What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education?

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

In Contested Childhood, Holloway, an educational and developmental psychologist, examines the Japanese preschool and identifies the cultural models that guide Japanese child-rearing as being contentious and fragmented.

Inspiring Motivation in Children and Youth: How to Nurture Environments for Learning explores motivation and its crucial role in promoting well-being in the classroom and life beyond school.

Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis.

Since Labour came to power in 1997, early years services have undergone a huge transformation for example a significant increase in the scale of provision, the creation of an over-arching policy approach (Every Child Matters), the establishment of new departments focused on children and their families at local and national level, new structures designed to promote partnership between different bodies concerned with childrens welfare, significant changes in the early years curriculum, new subsidies for childcare and education and new arrangements for regulation.

Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult.

Excite young learners with this collection of more than 80 simple science experiments.

The second volume of Priscilla Alderson's popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood.

In this unique and original book, Jamel Carly Campbell and Sonia Mainstone-Cotton come together to have an open and honest conversation about developing positive and responsive relationships in the early years.

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