Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten

Based on extensive research, and grounded in everyday classroom practice, the authors of this book explore important issues surrounding play in the early years curriculum. The book presents children's views on, and response to their role-play environment, alongside examples of good classroom practice, and addresses vital questions such as:

• Will structuring role play replace children's own attempts to create scenarios that grow out of their interests and relationships?
• Has an over-emphasis on subjects like literacy and numeracy eclipsed the important processes...

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 curriculum planning through links made to the Foundation Stage curriculum.

Each book includes:

• activities that can be used on their own or as part of a themed program
• ideas for enjoying an all round curriculum approach
• guidance on expanding existing ideas and resources
• linked ideas to be carried out at home.

Flight includes birds, airplanes,...

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 curriculum planning through links made to the Foundation Stage curriculum.

Each book includes:

• activities that can be used on their own or as part of a themed program
• ideas for enjoying an all round curriculum approach
• guidance on expanding existing ideas and resources
• linked ideas to be carried out at home.

The Sea includes themes of...

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 curriculum planning through links made to the Foundation Stage curriculum.

Each book includes:

• activities that can be used on their own or as part of a themed program
• ideas for enjoying an all round curriculum approach
• guidance on expanding existing ideas and resources
• linked ideas to be carried out at home.

The activities in Water...

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 curriculum planning through links made to the Foundation Stage curriculum

Each book incudes:

• activities that can be used on their own or as part of a themed program
• ideas for enjoying an all round curriculum approach
• guidance on expanding existing ideas and resources
• linked ideas to be carried out at home.

Woodland Creatures includes...

In a chapter on 'mythic play' Edmiston confronts adult discomfort over children's play with pretend weapons, as he encourages adults both to support children's desires to experience in imagination the limits of life and death, and to travel with children on their transformational journeys into unknown territory.

This book provides researchers and students with a sound theoretical framework for re-conceptualising significant...

Written by a highly acclaimed expert in the field, this practical and accessible book addresses all the critical aspects of effective nursery management. From leadership skills and one-to-one skills, developing and monitoring the curriculum; and staff training and appraisals, to astute financial management; marketing strategies and evaluating your nursery's service, this new, fully revised edition of Essential Nursery Management recognizes the huge changes that have taken place in public policy and parental awareness which have inspired practitioners to strive for quality and...

Early childhood education has always provoked passionate feelings amongst stakeholders at all levels. This reader examines change, transformation and continuity in relation to five key themes.

This highly practical book explores what young children can do musically and provides a wide range of ways in which you can help children to fully participate in musical experiences in early childhood settings.

In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the learning child, this book argues that the challenge to practice and research is to find ways of regaining movement and experimentation in subjectivity and learning.

Vivid examples from Swedish preschools - involving children, teachers, teacher students and educators and researchers - are woven together with the theories of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix...

The early years are an important period for learning, but the questions surrounding participatory learning amongst toddlers remain under-examined. This book presents the latest theoretical and research perspectives about how ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) contexts promote democracy and citizenship through participatory learning approaches. The contributors provide insight into national policies, provisions, and practices and advance our understandings of theory and research on toddlers' experiences for democratic participation across a number of countries, including the UK,...