1st Edition
Schemas in the Early Years Exploring Beneath the Surface Through Observation and Dialogue
Introduction Cath Arnold
Chapter 1: Treasure basket play – learning to move or moving to learn? Julie Brierley
Chapter 2: Lines and Connections Everywhere: A Possible Insight into Ezra Moores’ Conceptualisation of the World Colette Tait
Chapter 3: Round and Round: Learning about schemas in the Welsh Foundation Phase (FP) curriculum Amanda Thomas
Chapter 4: Schemas and Language Emma Hewitt
Chapter 5: Schemas and Metaphor Cath Arnold and Sue Gascoyne
Chapter 6: Why do they do that, and how should we respond? Kate Barker
Chapter 7: An Exploration of Schematic Play in Autistic Children
Tamsin Grimmer and Sue Gascoyne
Chapter 8: Feeling at home in the world: linking schemas with landscape and embodiment understandings Jan White
Chapter 9: Bringing post-humanism and Froebel into conversation with schema play Christina MacRae
Chapter 10: Children First: The Relevance of Schemas for Children in School Christine Parker
Co-writers: Zoë Austin and Antonio Griffiths-Murru
Concluding Thoughts Jan White and Cath Arnold
Biography
Cath Arnold is an early years consultant associated with the Pen Green Research Base, Corby, UK.
