Pre-school and kindergarten

This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine young children's perspectives on their male and female teachers.

Preschoolers are constantly using their bodies to play and learn, whether you encourage activity or not.

If you work in Early Years settings it is essential that you are well informed and aware of health and safety issues and procedures that you may face on a day-to-day basis.

Designed to be a one-stop-shop to meet the needs of local communities, Children's Centres represent a revolutionary shift in the way children's services are delivered to families.

Bugs and spiders are fascinating to adults and children alike!

By exploring the key issues, arguments and messages that exist in the field this book provides an international, comparative look at aspects of early childhood education and care.

Most preschool teachers have musical instruments in their classrooms, but may not realize they can use them for science explorations.

Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics-COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest-this timely and critical volume argues for a divestment in white privilege and an investment in anti-racist pedagogies and practice across early childhood contexts of research, policy, and teaching and learning.

Inform your teaching using your own play history.

Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a richly informed argument for curricular change to educate people towards achievement and success as intelligent machine systems proliferate.

What is working in education in the UK - and what isn't?

Whether you are a teacher looking for ways to strengthen the math learning in your early childhood classroom, an educator in a community of practice who wants to learn more about teaching math in developmentally appropriate ways, or a teacher-educator who wants to offer students an easy-to-use reference and guide for helping young children develop their math competencies and skills, this text will help you make math learning a fun and worthwhile activity in your setting.

Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers.

Das Buch zeigt ermutigende praktische Wege auf, wie die soziale Partizipation von Kindern mit Behinderungen in Kinderkrippen und Kindertageseinrichtungen kompetent unterstützt werden kann.

Celebrating the spirit and need for increased multi-disciplinary working and co-operation in the care and education of children, this book addresses the emergence of a new type of early years professional.

How can adults in Early Years settings and primary schools fully embrace the diverse nature of family life of the children they are working with?

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is a guide for primary teachers to the many kinds of texts children encounter, use and enjoy in their nursery and primary school years, providing an invaluable insight into the literature available.

Professionalism and Leadership in Early Childhood Education and Care explores the tension between what early years practitioners are expected to achieve, and the level of expertise and understanding required to underpin this.

'An excellent resource for all those working with young children.

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.

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the world.

Was muss eine Krippenfachperson wissen, um eine qualitativ hochwertige Bildungsarbeit in der Kinderkrippe oder KiTa umzusetzen?

This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history.

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

Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education offers a new framework for examining the diverse scientific perspectives that shape early childhood education.

This volume is a guide to using the Relational Literacy Curriculum with children in grades 2-5.

Putting Storytelling at the Heart of Early Childhood Practice is a brilliantly engaging and practical book that highlights the essential nature of storytelling in all walks of life, and how to best cultivate this in the early years classroom.

What can we do to help ELL students understand English?

The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education aims to support the effort to simultaneously scale up and improve the quality of early childhood education by bringing together relevant insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling field.

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 accessible guide offers a concise introduction to the science behind worry in children, summarising research from across psychology to explore the role of worry in a range of circumstances, from everyday worries to those that can seriously impact children's lives.

As one of the core areas of the curriculum, science provides particular challenges, especially to teachers working at the top end of the elementary school range.

Making an important contribution to the growing body of literature addressing the issue of sustainability in the Early Years, Sandra Smidt provides a highly accessible text examining the philosophical, political, economic, social and cultural aspects of sustainability impacting on very young children today.

A practical guide to managing children's behaviour in childcare and early years settings.

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

Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the accompanying storybook, Maya's ACE Adventures!

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.

Durante los anos pre-escolares la mayoria de los ninos tienen sus primeras experiencias de formacion y union social con sus pares.

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.

Many emotional learning activities - the "e;E"e; in Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - include self-regulation skills typically led by teachers, but why not empower young people by giving them tools to choose their own self-regulation techniques?

Nurturing Self-Regulation in Early Childhood explores how young children develop self-regulation and offers practical guidance on helping them to manage their feelings and behaviour.

This book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of five and six year old children, drawing upon data from an in-depth study of an inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school and its surrounding community.

Working with Children in the Early Years is an accessible introduction to early years theories, policy and practice, offering practitioners in a diverse range of settings the opportunity to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills for working with young children.

Pip's Dream is the first book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

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

Winner of the 2022 Book Award of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Gareth B.