This book is a comprehensive resource of practical activities and games for the under threes.
Suitable for early years practitioners, early childhood students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and all those who work with and care for young children, this is an exciting and thought-provoking book.
More recent researchers have explored the educational implications of schema theory (Athey, 1990; Nutbrown, 1999; Worthington and Carruthers, 2003) from infancy through early childhood. Schemas are defined as repeating patterns and ...
Play is crucial to every child's development.
This is a big ask and in a busy setting it can be a challenge to adopt a flexible, creative approach to planning that embraces the unexpected rather than relying on templates or existing schemes of work.
Chan, S.Y. (2007) 'The Confucian conception of gender in the twenty-first century', in D.A. Bell and H. Chaibong (eds), ... Connolly, P. (1998) Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children: Social Relations in a Multi-ethnic, ...
This accessible and practical book provides teachers with a tool-kit for observing and assessing children's play developed by the author after a decade of working in early years classrooms.
The book extensively covers the various contexts that children, from birth to age 8, may engage with during the early years.
This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work about play and early childhood education across 13 countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, ...
This book represents the outcome of the joint activities of a group of scholars who were concerned about the lack of international research in play for children from birth to 3 years.
This book: · Considers play from a variety of perspectives · Offers expert insights into theory and research in each area · Encourages the reader to critically reflect on both theory and practice With features including key terms, case ...