Childhood Books

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1. An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Early Childhood

   By Olivia N. Saracho

   Play provides young children with the opportunity to express their ideas, symbolize, and test their knowledge of the world. It provides the basis for inquiry in literacy, science, social studies, mathematics, art, music, and movement. Through play, young children become active learners engaged in...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88775-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Early Childhood Teacher Research

   By Kathryn Castle

   This exciting new resource, Early Childhood Teacher Research, is a comprehensive guide for early childhood students and professionals in understanding and doing early childhood teacher research. This accessible and interactive book touches upon the important issues every early childhood...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87759-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58347-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Early Years Professional Status: The Complete Guide to the Full Route Pathway

   By Anne Rodgers

   Edited by Jane Joyce

   This comprehensive text is aimed at all students studying for Early Years Professional Status via the Full Route Pathway, and guides readers through children’s development in the first five years of life. Links to the Early Years Foundation Stage are made throughout, as students are steered through...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57107-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Children, Youth and the City

   By Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk

   More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-37692-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Introducing Bruner: A guide for practitioners and students in early years education

   By Sandra Smidt

   Sandra Smidt takes the reader on a journey through the key concepts of Jerome Bruner, a significant figure in the field of early education whose work has spanned almost a century. His wide-ranging and innovative principles of early learning and teaching are unpicked here using everyday language and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57421-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The New Early Years Professional: Dilemmas and Debates, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Angela D. Nurse

   Issues to do with early years are a government and national focus in the UK. In England the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage and the extension of the Early Years Professional Status programme have brought with them new questions for practitioners, both philosophically and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58515-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Every Nursery Needs a Garden

   By Ann Watts

   A garden can be a magical place for young children and offers them rich and engaging learning experiences with plants, animals, soil, sand and many other natural materials. This book guides you through the process of creating a garden, however small, for young children. It looks at the impact a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59131-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens: An exploration of beliefs, values and practices

   Edited by Rod Parker-Rees

   ‘Steiner schools have helped carry the flag of liberal, creative, humanistic education through these dark ages and can now act as a beacon’ Professor Peter Woods, formerly of the Open University. Contributors to this accessible book will show how Steiner kindergarten practice can offer an...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60392-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional, 2nd Edition

    By Marianne Jones, Marilyn Shelton

    Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional development tool, portfolios are also useful...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-80052-5 | Paperback (Routledge)