Assessment and Evaluation for Transformation in Early Childhood establishes a new, democratic and participatory approach to assessment and evaluation in early childhood. By analysing the practice of assessment and evaluation within early childhood pedagogy, it provides a clear theoretical and methodological basis for this approach and a set of practical techniques for assessment and evaluation.

Structured into three parts - context and principles, approaches and techniques and case studies, the authors show how documentation and portfolios can be an ethical mode of...

Assessment and Evaluation for Transformation in Early Childhood establishes a new, democratic and participatory approach to assessment and evaluation in early childhood. By analysing the practice of assessment and evaluation within early childhood pedagogy, it provides a clear theoretical and methodological basis for this approach and a set of practical techniques for assessment and evaluation.

Structured into three parts context and principles, approaches and techniques and case studies, the authors show how documentation and portfolios can be an ethical mode of...

Pathways to Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care is concerned with a growing interest from policy and research in the professionalisation of the early childhood workforce. Illustrated by in-depth case studies of innovative and sustainable pathways to professionalisation, it recognises the importance of a systemic approach to professionalisation across all levels of the early childhood. The authors of this wide-ranging book share insights of professionalism from various European countries and suggest that professionalism in early childhood unfolds best in a...

Pathways to Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care is concerned with a growing interest from policy and research in the professionalisation of the early childhood workforce. Illustrated by in-depth case studies of innovative and sustainable pathways to professionalisation, it recognises the importance of a systemic approach to professionalisation across all levels of the early childhood. The authors of this wide-ranging book share insights of professionalism from various European countries and suggest that professionalism in early childhood unfolds best in a competent system...

Exploring the ways in which new technologies are shaping the lives and experiences of young children, this book challenges expectations and assertions about digital childhoods and provides research evidence and theoretical frameworks from which to make sense of children's learning, to understand family practices with new technologies at home and practices with digital resources in early years educational settings. It will contribute to the development of practice, extend theoretical perspectives to encompass the impact of living in a digital age and consider the ways in which values and...

Exploring the ways in which new technologies are shaping the lives and experiences of young children, this book challenges expectations and assertions about digital childhoods and provides research evidence and theoretical frameworks from which to make sense of children's learning, to understand family practices with new technologies at home and practices with digital resources in early years educational settings. It will contribute to the development of practice, extend theoretical perspectives to encompass the impact of living in a digital age and consider the ways in which values and...