Preschool & Kindergarten 10

Praise for 3rd edition: 'Experienced practitioners and students will find a host of new ideas to help them create interesting environments and starting points to promote young children's learning.' ……続きを見る

Grounded in theory and research, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum provides an activity-based and classroom-proven curriculum for educators to consider as they plan and interact with pre……続きを見る

In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of……続きを見る

Teaching your child Italian can be fun and easy! With engaging pictures, clear text and even a Italian pronunciation guide, your child will be able to master Italian numbers quickly and easily! The ……続きを見る

Positive relationships between practitioners and parents are essential for young children’s wellbeing, but achieving this can be difficult if there is not enough understanding about how relationship……続きを見る

Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media play……続きを見る

This book begins with an overview of the first months of a child's life, with an indication of the major movement milestones which all children should reach before they enter the pre-school phase. T……続きを見る

The Student Teacher's Handbook, Fourth Edition is a practical, user-friendly text that employs scientific research, sound advice, and student journal entries to encourage, sustain, and challenge the……続きを見る

By the time young children enter statutory education, they may have already attended a number of different educational settings, from entry to group settings outside home, to joining playgroup or nu……続きを見る

This book is directed to the parents, teachers, and counselors of preschool children.Integrity, Honesty, Individuality, Self-Confidence, and Wisdom: the ingredients for a successful life begin at a ……続きを見る

Written for teachers, nursery nurses, students and parents by experienced nursery staff, this is an essential guide to organizing, resourcing and teaching in pre-school settings. 続きを見る

Howard stopped doing what he loved the most because friends made fun of him. He wanted to belong and fit in so desperately that he tried but did not succeed at all kinds of activities. One day with ……続きを見る

The book demonstrates the hopeful stance the young take in response to ordinary suffering and significant trauma when adults talk with them about their losses. Its underlying themes convey the truth……続きを見る

Bringing together a collection of chapters from international experts in the field of early childhood education, Rethinking Play and Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education seeks to explore how play i……続きを見る

This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses. Unlike other books of its ki……続きを見る

This book makes explicit connections between young children′s spontaneous repeated actions, and their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas, attachment theo……続きを見る

More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the……続きを見る

This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings. Case studies are used to provide the starting point for reflection, and through……続きを見る

The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in. Understanding how children develop compu……続きを見る

This book increases understanding of, and provides inspiration for, the conduct of research in primary/elementary education. It discusses and evaluates the selection and development of research meth……続きを見る

Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations focuses on how children conceptualise and experience child-adult relations. The authors explore the idea of generation as a key to understanding children's agen……続きを見る

Over the past 15 years, there has been a pronounced trend toward a particular type of picturebook that many would label "postmodern." Postmodern picturebooks have stretched our conventional notion o……続きを見る

This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into curriculu……続きを見る

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning? What are the key stages of a toddler’s development? Do movements such as crawling really affect later learning? How important is the……続きを見る

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by r……続きを見る

We all want to do whatever we can to support our children – and language and literacy lie at the heart of a child’s learning and development. There are many simple ways of helping your child to deve……続きを見る

Building on the successful 'spirals' programme this series of books addresses language development in the three core areas of the curriculum. Linking the work done in school with simple games and ac……続きを見る

This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places……続きを見る

This fully updated new edition of Teaching Practice for Early Childhood will help student and recently graduated early childhood teachers make the most of their teaching in a variety of early years'……続きを見る

Empowering Methods for Effective Childcare As a professional childcare provider, you want to create an environment that is inviting and nurturing for children as well as encouraging for your adult s……続きを見る