Pre-school & Kindergarten

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged ...

Research findings repeatedly show that music is one of the subjects which teachers feel least confident to tackle. There are many reasons for this,...

In this book are gathered together Jerome Bruner’s major papers on the "psychology of knowing". Spanning virtually the entire range of knowledge ac...

Anyone meeting a young child with autism for the first time will find this fully revised edition of a classic text invaluable. The authors provide ...

Young children are born into a digital world and it is not unusual to see preschool children intuitively swiping screens and confidently pressing b...

We are all mindful of the increasing news coverage of outdoor play and its benefits, but how can you go beyond the sandpit and hopscotch to create ...

Hands-on lessons can be fun and compelling, but when it comes to life science, they aren't always possible, practical, effective, or safe. Children...

Dissatisfied with the effects of schooling on children from low-income families, Doreen Grant left her post as head of a secondary school in Liverp...

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of thes...

This book helps you make sense of the data your school collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quant...

This 15th volume of "Advances in Early Education and Day Care" focuses on the implementation of professional development for early childhood educat...

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of thes...

This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in a...

Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the signi...

The most rapid and significant phase of development occurs in the first three years of a child’s life. The Supporting Children from Birth to Three ...

This timely and accessible text introduces, theorises and practically applies two important concepts which now underpin early years practice: those...

Understanding Physical Development in the Early Years provides an accessible introduction to the current research and thinking in this area alongsi...

What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens?What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers’ ways of getting to kno...

Building on highly topical research surrounding young children’s participation, this book draws on a diversity of disciplines exploring the importa...

What is the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘danger’? What can children learn from taking risks? How can you provide key experiences for children and...

Early childhood education has always provoked passionate feelings amongst stakeholders at all levels, from practitioners working with children and ...

Life's Little Lessons is a delightful and humorous story about a caterpillar named Cyrano and his misadventures. In school he struggles, at times h...

Key Persons in the Early Years aims to explain what a Key Person is, the theory behind the approach and the practicalities of implementation. Pract...

What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens?What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers’ ways of getting to kno...

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 ...

This book does not cover the whole field of Infants’ Teaching but is concerned mainly with general principles and matters which are open to the non...

This highly practical resource book presents ways in which teachers can help to develop children's problem-solving and thinking skills through a ra...

Now in its third edition, Outdoor Learning in the Early Years is the complete guide to creating effective outdoor environments for young children’s...

What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together?The ...

New technologies are dramatically changing the face of education and the nature of childhood itself. In Shift to the Future, Nicola Yelland examine...

In Play and Creativity in Art Teaching, esteemed art educator George Szekely draws on his two classic volumes, Encouraging Creativity in Art Lesson...

Children are born naturally mathematical, so why is it sometimes so difficult to observe children being mathematical? Why do so many of us think we...

Parents have a crucial role in supporting children’s learning, development and well-being. The act of forming effective partnerships with families ...

What is the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘danger’? What can children learn from taking risks? How can you provide key experiences for children and...

This timely and accessible text introduces, theorises and practically applies two important concepts which now underpin early years practice: those...