Early Childhood Matters: Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project

ISBN-13: 9780415482431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 264 str.

Sylva, Kathy

Opis

Early Childhood Matters documents the rapid development of early years education and care from the late 1990s into the new millennium. It chronicles the unique contribution of the EPPE research to our understanding of the importance of pre-school. The Effective Pre-school and Primary Education (EPPE) project is the largest European study of the impact of early years education and care on children's developmental outcomes. Through this ground-breaking project a team of internationally-recognised experts provide insights into how home learning environments interact with pre-school and primary school experiences to shape children's progress. The findings of this fascinating project:

• provide new evidence of the importance of early childhood experiences
• show how these experiences influence children's cognitive, social and behavioural development
• give new insights on the importance of early years education
• will be relevant to a wide audience who are interested in policy development, early years education and care, and 'effectiveness' research
• examine how the combined effects of pre-school, primary school and the family interact to shape children's educational outcomes.

This insightful book is essential reading for all those interested in innovative research methodology and policy development in early childhood education and care. It provides new evidence on good practice in early years settings and will have a wide appeal for students and those engaged in providing accredited courses of study at a range of levels in early childhood.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Why EPPE? Kathy Sylva and the EPPE Team  Chapter 2 The EPPE settings in the context of English pre-schools Iram Siraj-Blatchford  Chapter 3 The EPPE Research design: An educational effectiveness focus Pam Sammons  Chapter 4 Why children, parents and home learning are important Edward Melhuish  Chapter 5 Quality in Early Childhood settings Kathy Sylva  Chapter 6 Does pre-school make a difference?: Results over the pre-school period (to aged 5) Pam Sammons  Chapter 7 Do the benefits of pre-school last? Investigating pupil outcomes to the end of Key Stage 2 (aged 11) Pam Sammons  Chapter 8 A focus on pedagogy: Case studies of effective practice Iram Siraj-Blatchford  Chapter 9 Vulnerable children: Identifying children ‘at risk’ Brenda Taggart  Chapter 10 A linked study: Effective Pre-school Provision in Northern Ireland Edward Melhuish  Chapter 11 Making a difference: How research can inform policy Brenda Taggart  Chapter 12 Re-thinking the evidence-base for Early Years policy and practice Kathy Sylva  Glossary of terms  Appendix 1 How children were assessed at different time points throughout the study  Appendix 2 The Home Learning Environment at different time points  Appendix 3 The EPPE Technical Papers  Appendix 4 Social/behavioural dimensions at different time points (items associated with dimensions)  Appendix 5 The Multiple Disadvantage Index  Appendix 6 Results from analyses of pre-school effects compared with those of family income and parents’ employment status