1st Edition
Understanding Early Development from Conception to Four A Guide to Provision and Practice
SECTION ONE – Development and Learning
1. Understanding Early Development
2. The Developing Brain
3. The Developing Personality
4. The Developing Communicator
5. The Developing Body
6. The Impact on the Child
SECTION TWO – Key areas of learning
7. Learning Through Play
8. Learning to Communicate
9. Learning How the World Works
10. A New Learning Environment in the 21st Century
11. Learning About Mind and Body
12. Early learning or early years care?
SECTION THREE – Supporting learning in the early years
13. Developing the Quality of Our Interactions
14. Developing Our Observation Skills
15. Supporting Language Acquisition and Early Literacy
16. Developing Positive Dispositions to Learning
17. Learning All the Time
18. Language, literacy and learning
CONCLUSION
Biography
Sheila Nutkins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Catriona McDonald is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Katrina Foy is Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
