Pre-school and kindergarten

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence.

Providing readers with a robust, practical understanding of how young children build knowledge, this book offers a critical examination of the ways traditional homework fails young children, and how alternatives can better build collaborative engagement with families while supporting learning across all content areas.

Providing readers with a robust, practical understanding of how young children build knowledge, this book offers a critical examination of the ways traditional homework fails young children, and how alternatives can better build collaborative engagement with families while supporting learning across all content areas.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and methodologies in developmental psychology.

This accessible guide supports school and education settings in co-producing SMART targets for education health and care plans, SEN support plans and Personal Education Plans.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and methodologies in developmental psychology.

This accessible guide supports school and education settings in co-producing SMART targets for education health and care plans, SEN support plans and Personal Education Plans.

This book is packed with bright ideas and practical projects for children aged 4-11 to raise environmental awareness and prompt discussion about climate change.

Our children grow up into a world of stories-in books, on screens-but what do they make of the stories we offer them?

Our children grow up into a world of stories-in books, on screens-but what do they make of the stories we offer them?

Designed to assist educators of young children in building awareness of their roles as members of a global community in an increasingly divided world, this essential guide is an illuminating resource which answers the question: "e;Is it possible to teach global citizenship in the first five years of life?

Designed to assist educators of young children in building awareness of their roles as members of a global community in an increasingly divided world, this essential guide is an illuminating resource which answers the question: "e;Is it possible to teach global citizenship in the first five years of life?

This book is packed with bright ideas and practical projects for children aged 4-11 to raise environmental awareness and prompt discussion about climate change.

This sequel to the bestselling Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories reveals the positive impact the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley has on young children's literacy, communication and confidence.

This sequel to the bestselling Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories reveals the positive impact the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley has on young children's literacy, communication and confidence.

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

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

This book discusses the importance of teaching fundamental economic concepts as part of the middle school social science curriculum in India.

This book discusses the importance of teaching fundamental economic concepts as part of the middle school social science curriculum in India.

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek.

Pete and Jem get ready for Belle's birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons.

Belle loves to try and get involved with all of the things that her big bother, Pete, can do, but she's not quite big enough to sprint or swim or read.

Pete and Jem get ready for Belle's birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons.

Belle loves to try and get involved with all of the things that her big bother, Pete, can do, but she's not quite big enough to sprint or swim or read.

This guidebook has been created to accompany the Grammar Tales story books, a collection of beautifully illustrated picture books designed to support grammar and language development in children.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun playing in the snow until they run into each other and fall over.

This guidebook has been created to accompany the Grammar Tales story books, a collection of beautifully illustrated picture books designed to support grammar and language development in children.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo, but they both want to see different animals, and are pulling their mother in different directions!

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun playing in the snow until they run into each other and fall over.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Jem's friend, Lottie, has come to play, but Jem is taking all the toys for herself.

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek.

Jem's friend, Lottie, has come to play, but Jem is taking all the toys for herself.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo, but they both want to see different animals, and are pulling their mother in different directions!

Evolved through conversations with key early childhood education experts, Schemas in the Early Years focuses on the value of 'repeated patterns' of action or 'schemas' in young children's play.

Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development.

Evolved through conversations with key early childhood education experts, Schemas in the Early Years focuses on the value of 'repeated patterns' of action or 'schemas' in young children's play.

Language Acquisition: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the must-know issues in child language development.

Challenges in Early Years and Primary Education focuses on the teaching and learning of children in early years and primary school settings and creates awareness and a deeper understanding of current and critical education issues such as wellbeing, global education, online teaching, and teaching and learning in a multicultural society.

Challenges in Early Years and Primary Education focuses on the teaching and learning of children in early years and primary school settings and creates awareness and a deeper understanding of current and critical education issues such as wellbeing, global education, online teaching, and teaching and learning in a multicultural society.

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about relationships with families.

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about relationships with families.

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video games as tools for teaching collaborative social skills and building social connections.

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video games as tools for teaching collaborative social skills and building social connections.

Language and communication skills are a key foundation of child development.

Language and communication skills are a key foundation of child development.

This book explores boys' underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children's rights and postcolonial theory.