Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Diahann Gallard

This book is a research-based text about animals in early childhood education for researchers, academics and postgraduate students. It includes philosophical, historical and socio-political ideas about animals in early childhood education. Written from a pragmatic perspective, the author outlines…

Hardback – 2019-04-30 
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Yang Weipeng, Hui Li

Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there has been no specialised publication exploring early childhood curriculum in Chinese contexts. Through this book, readers will learn more about how the…

Hardback – 2019-04-02 
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Hazel G. Whitters

Attainment and Executive Functioning in the Early Years combines knowledge and understanding from research with operational skills from practice in the early years. It presents the development of a sense of self which occurs between birth and five years, the effect of adverse childhood experiences,…

Hardback – 2018-12-04
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

Edited by Susanne Garvis, Niklas Pramling

Over the past few decades, a growing body of literature has developed which examines children’s perspectives of their own lives, viewing them as social actors and experts in their understanding of the world. Focusing specifically on narratives, this unique and timely book provides an analysis of…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Susanne Garvis, Matthew Manning

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic…

Paperback – 2018-07-04
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Hasina Banu Ebrahim

Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they are cared for and educated in centre-based provision in two provinces in post-apartheid South Africa. Both theological and social science perspectives…

Paperback – 2018-06-01
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Sharryn Clarke

This volume explores concepts of mentoring, leadership and issues faced by early childhood teachers. Foregrounded against inadequate leadership and mentoring training in this sector, this book looks at how mentoring is exercised through Facebook. Mentoring through Facebook provokes a strong sense…

Hardback – 2018-04-06
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Jan Deans, Susan Wright

Investigating children’s learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children’s Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning. Promoting the concept of dance and…

Hardback – 2018-02-16
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Mary Moloney, Jan Pettersen

The Early Childhood Education sector around the world is constantly changing, whether because of the unprecedented demand for ECE services globally, accelerated social change, or the introduction of pedagogical and regulatory practices. Based upon empirical inquiry, Early Childhood Education…

Paperback – 2018-01-22
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Joanne Lunn Brownlee, Eva Johansson, Susan Walker, Laura Scholes

There is strong social and political interest in active citizenship and values in education internationally. Active citizenship requires children to experience and internalize moral values for human rights, developing their own opinions and moral responsibility. While investment in young children…

Paperback – 2018-01-03
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Miriam B. Tager

Challenging the normative paradigm that school readiness is a positive and necessary objective for all young children, this book asserts that the concept is a deficit-based practice that fosters the continuation of discriminatory classifications. Tager draws on findings of a qualitative study to…

Hardback – 2017-03-24
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Michael Dezuanni, Karen Dooley, Sandra Gattenhof, Linda Knight

Digital devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers, are becoming commonplace in young children’s lives for play, entertainment, learning and communication. Recently, there has been a great deal of focus on the educational potential of these devices in both formal and informal educational…

Paperback – 2016-08-16
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

Edited by Sandie Mourão, Mónica Lourenço

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published research exists to support the implementation of such programmes. Drawing on a synthesis of theory, research and practice, this edited volume makes an…

Paperback – 2016-08-16
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

By Pauline Harris, Harry Manatakis

This book discusses how consultations with young children could signal a change of thinking about how children might influence policy and shape the development of a child-friendly state. While the consultations in this study were germane to political decisions, they took place as multi-modal…

Paperback – 2016-03-03
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Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education