Childhood Books

New and Published Books

1. Early Childhood Education

   A Practical Guide to Evidence-Based, Multi-Tiered Service Delivery

   By Gina Coffee, Corey E. Ray-Subramanian, G. Thomas Schanding, Jr., Kelly A. Feeney-Kettler

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   In the past several years, models of multi-tiered service delivery have emerged as a framework for supporting the needs of school-aged children in schools across the country and have received much attention in scholarly publications of education and related fields. Despite the needs of young...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding the Te Whariki Approach

   Early years education in practice

   By Wendy Lee, Margaret Carr, Brenda Soutar, Linda Mitchell

   Series: Understanding the… Approach

   Understanding the Te Whariki Approach is a much–needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. Progress in infancy Research

   Volume 2

   Edited by Jeffrey W. Fagen, Harlene Hayne

   Series: Progress in Infancy Research Series

   The Progress in Infancy Research Series is dedicated to the presentation of innovative and exciting research on infants, both human and animal. Each volume in the series is designed to stand alone and contains autonomous chapters which are based on high quality programs of research with infants....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School

   Edited by Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Jennifer C. Ablow, Vanessa Kahn Johnson, Jeffrey R. Measelle

   Series: Monographs in Parenting Series

   The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School is a result of a longitudinal prevention study of 100 families begun the year before their first children entered kindergarten. Each family went through an assessment and then a subset was randomly chosen for group...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Reception Year in Action, revised and updated edition

   A month-by-month guide to success in the classroom, 2nd Edition

   By Anna Ephgrave

   ‘The Reception Year in Action will take the understanding of outdoor play, teaching and learning to a new level. Everyone who is involved with early years education and care should read this book!’ Helen Bilton, University of Reading, UK ‘This is a fantastic book... it shows exactly how an...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

   Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

   The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

   By Kerry H. Robinson

   Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children’s access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children’s vulnerability and to the constitution of the ‘good’...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy

   By Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues between people of all ages. As works of art, picturebooks offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. This book considers censorship of certain well-known picturebooks, challenging the...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Early Childhood and Compulsory Education

   Reconceptualising the relationship

   Edited by Peter Moss

   Series: Contesting Early Childhood

   What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together? The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology

    2nd Edition

    By Peter Mitchell, Fenja Ziegler

    This new edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exciting new findings in the thriving area of developmental psychology. The book addresses a number of fascinating questions including: Are...

    Published October 25th 2012 by Psychology Press