Early Years Books

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1. Evolutionary Playwork: Reflective Analytic Practice, 2nd Edition

   By Bob Hughes

   Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children’s play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of...

   September 2011 | 978-0-415-55085-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Creating Multi-Sensory Environments: Practical ideas for teaching and learning

   By Christopher Davies

   Multi-sensory environments in the classroom provide a wealth of stimulating learning experiences for all young children whose senses are still under development. This highly practical guide to creating and using multi-sensory environments is packed full of ideas for low-cost, easy to assemble...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-57330-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Contesting Early Childhood…and Opening for Change

   By Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss

   Drawing on and concluding a landmark series, Contesting Early Childhood, this book offers a review of the emerging critique of the dominant discourse and, equally important, examines the possibilities for change that alternative discourses are opening up, both theoretically and in actual practice....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-46861-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. 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)

5. 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)
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   Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years: A Guide for Students, Teachers and Assistants, 3rd Edition

   By Rosemary Roger

   The foundation stage has a fundamental role in the laying of foundations for children's learning. In this new edition the author uses a wide range of material, including research evidence, to offer an additional dimension to work currently taking place in the Foundation Stage. Each chapter...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58304-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Routledge Companion to Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Andrew Peterson

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

8. Key Persons in the Nursery: Building Relationships for Quality Provision, 2nd Edition

   By Elinor Goldschmeid, Peter Elfer, Dorothy Selleck

   ‘The Key Person should help the baby or child to become familiar with the provision and to feel confident and safe within it, developing a genuine bond with the child, (and the child’s parents) offering a settled close relationship.’ – EYFS The Early Years Foundation Stage requires every child...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61039-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. 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)

10. 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)