This title covers issues such as: play in the early years foundation stage (EYFS) in England, safeguarding children, the healthy child and many more. It encourages students and practitioners to consider their own practice and to examine those in a wide range of early years settings.
The Little Book of Reflective Practice is bursting with big ideas which will encourage you to be curious, reflective and courageous in your professional learning journey.
This timely new book aims to support reflective practice for those working with young children in everyday work and in the wider political context, whatever their professional role and whatever level of qualification they hold.
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This is essential reading for students undertaking work-based and academic study in early years and for those working towards post-graduate and professional qualifications.
This latest edition of Reflective Practice and Early Years Professonalism provides a useful overview of the subject in straightforward language that allows novices to access the more complicated concepts.
15 Re - thinking reflective practice in the Early Years Di Chilvers F For example , when you're with a group you feel like you don't know some things , because you're not an expert , and someone else helps you and that way you learn ...
Livingston: Learning and Teaching Scotland. Retrieved 11 April 2014 from http://www.educationscotland.gov. uk/publications/a/leadershipreview.asp. Edgington, M. (2005) The Foundation Stage Teacher in Action: Teaching 3, ...
Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice offers stories and structures connected to four principles of pedagogical leadership with specific ideas to enhance the work of educational leaders.
Murray and McDowall Clark (2013) note the complexities of identifying an early years leadership framework which would model itself on the passionate care, to improve the education and well-being of young children (p 289) as they allude ...
She reminds us that over the years children have been conceptualized in different ways – for example, as empty vessels or blank sheets (John Locke), or as passing through stages of development (Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean Piaget; ...