A hair-raising journey through the little-known heart of South America, this is the story of John Blashford-Snell's search for the mythical land of Great Paititi, east of the Andes. The myth of Paititi has attracted conquistadors, archaeologists, adventurers and even, more recently, Nazis fleeing justice. John Blashford-Snell set off through dense rain-forest with a full team of jungle bashers, archaeologists, soldiers and scientists to reach the spot where Paititi's dangerously snake-infested ruins were supposed to be.
A hair-raising journey through the little-known heart of South America, this is the story of John Blashford-Snell's search for the mythical land of Gr...
Understanding Schemas and Emotion in Early Childhood makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions and their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas, attachment theory and family contexts, the author takes schema theory into the territory of the emotions, making it relevant to the social and emotional development strand in early childhood education.
Based on research carried out alongside children, parents, workers and co-researchers at the world-famous Pen Green Nursery, and using case studies of a small number...
Understanding Schemas and Emotion in Early Childhood makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions and their rep...
Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable reflective practice in early years education, and offers depth to the arguments for a research-orientated stance to this vital field of study.
This thought-provoking text explores and documents a variety of small-scale practitioner research projects from the home and early years settings. The stories are centred around real life for children, families and workers and offer practical ideas and support for early years students around the world....
Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable refl...
This creative and highly engaging text describes how young children learn through exploring repeated patterns in their actions, known as schemas, and how they can help inform planning for children 's learning. The contributors differentiate between the philosophical approaches underpinning constructivism and behaviourism, and include a variety of case studies of a small number of children in order to demonstrate the universal explorations we all engage in as human beings.
The approach from the contributors, which involves presenting observations of one or two young children per chapter...
This creative and highly engaging text describes how young children learn through exploring repeated patterns in their actions, known as schemas, a...
