Pre-school and kindergarten

Logical thinking is a critically important cognitive skill.

The 'Get to Know Me' resources aim to support children, with those around them, who may have additional/special educational needs.

Here is an easy-to-read and inspiring text that explores the nature of young people and the effects traditional discipline strategies have on them.

What is childhood like in Finland?

Building on highly topical research surrounding young children's participation, this book draws on a diversity of disciplines exploring the importance of participatory approaches to children's early education and shows how fostering a sense of identity and belonging are essential to early learning.

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content.

Zack just wants to find other bees that look like him - and he meets some interesting and different kinds of bees along the way.

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.

This book questions what 'educating the whole child' means in the context of our current neoliberal education system.

The Joy of Movement is a movement activity book with a therapeutic perspective.

Managing the behaviour of young children can be a real challenge, this book provides you with 100 tried and tested ideas for the long, medium and short term.

'This book will be an invaluable resource for pre-service early childhood educators as they prepare not only for their placements but also their future careers.

As EY practitioners, we know that child-centred practice is what matters.

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development.

This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the whats, whys, and how-tos of incorporating outstanding childrens literature into the K8 reading program.

How should practitioners and leaders set about designing and implementing their curriculum in the Early Years Foundation Stage?

Working in the early years can be challenging, but to be outstanding in the early years can be even more difficult.

Have you ever wondered what the Montessori approach is all about and how it can be used to benefit the young children in your setting?

This book explains how young children develop mathematically in their earliest years and shows the support and teaching needed by adults to accelerate their progress and attainment, helping them master mathematical concepts and skills.

Focusing on the empirical evidence base for pedagogical decisions taken when children are playing and learning outside, this groundbreaking book examines the intention and purpose of children's outdoor playful activity and the associated issues of pedagogy.

Welche Farbe hat das Licht?

Physical development underpins much of a child's later educational advancement.

Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care.

This book supports students of Early Childhood Studies, Early Years and related disciplines to understand self-regulation in the early years.

Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational contexts, from early childhood to tertiary, with an international team of contributors from Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

This fully updated new edition offers a comprehensive, accessible, yet rigorous introduction to the study of Early Childhood that will will add value to any Early Childhood Studies course at both foundation and degree level.

`This book is a tremendous resource for any early years setting.

Professional development is important, but early childhood professionals get just as bored, worn out, and disengaged from learning as their younger counterparts do.

This book offers in-depth insights into the revised Early Years Foundation Stage.

Everyday STEAM for the Early Childhood Classroom offers a rich, rewarding pathway for early childhood educators integrating the arts into STEM instruction across ages 0-8.

This collection of short wordless picture books helps to support children with speech, language and communication needs as they develop their expressive sentence and narrative skills through storytelling.

How can teachers develop best practice in art teaching?

Solution Focused Practice is a change-focused approach to enabling people of all ages to make progress in their lives by emphasising what is wanted in the future, amplifying successes and highlighting the capacities and skills available to support progress.

What does gender equity mean for early years practitioners?

Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education focuses on the use of pedagogical documentation as a tool for learning and transformation.

In this easy-to-use reference, over 1600 websites have been carefully researched and selected with educational and recreational needs in mind.

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children (0-8 years old) and the challenge of enhancing professional development opportunities of early years practitioners.

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.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is made up of resources aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

Lynn and Lily love licking lollipops, and lollies of all colours, shapes and sizes.

Based on the latest research about how children learn, this book helps elementary school teachers make their classrooms into creative spaces that facilitate teaching and learning.

This book explores creative development in babies and shows how practitioners can support even the youngest child's natural curiosity and help them to develop their ideas, thoughts and feelings.

The Handbook of Classroom Management, Third Edition, is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom management in schools.

It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives.

Hearing the Voices of Children provides a fresh perspective on social policy.

In this fully revised and updated second edition, Early Childhood Teacher Research addresses the questions and concerns that pre- and in-service teachers of young children frequently have when engaging in teacher research.

In the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a foundation for vocabulary, values, cognitive processes, and social skills.

In einer Welt, in der städtische Räume immer dichter bebaut und grüne Flächen rarer werden, wächst der Wunsch nach einer eigenen Oase inmitten der Großstadt.

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Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue.