Pre-school & Kindergarten

This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily ...

This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily ...

In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short t...

Narrative in the Early Years Curriculum offers a timely new perspective on the place of narrative in the early years curriculum. Applying the resul...

Stories, Pictures and Reality follows two children as they work out the reality status of stories and pictures, with a daily parent-observer record...

An edited collection describing key issues in supporting literacy development, this book helps to 'unlock' the mysteries behind helping children le...

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization: Policies and Practices at Global and Local Levels examines...

Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book sho...

In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research...

This book is about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American...

This volume revisits a number of themes that have appeared in earlier "Advances" publications, including "Social Contexts of Early Development" and...

Presenting a compelling case for changing our system of education from a graded, curriculum-centered approach to a multiage, child-centered approac...

In this fully revised and updated second edition, Early Childhood Teacher Research addresses the questions and concerns that pre- and in-service te...

Evidence suggests that the first 10 or so years of life create the foundation for subsequent participation in recreational and health-related physi...

Spaces to Play explains how to use innovative Mosaic approach with young children to ensure their perspectives are the starting point when planning...

Bringing together scholarship and examples from practice, this book explores ways in which early childhood curriculum – including classroom practic...

Designed for all professionals working with parents and families of young children, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for buildin...

Drawing on a rich ethnographic study conducted in first grade classrooms in the US, this book reveals the potentially invisible, yet significant wa...

Early Childhood Education in the United States is rife with contradictions, critique and innovation. It is a time when a status quo – characterized...

Presenting a compelling case for changing our system of education from a graded, curriculum-centered approach to a multiage, child-centered approac...

Attainment and Executive Functioning in the Early Years combines knowledge and understanding from research with operational skills from practice in...

This ground-breaking book proves that Project Based Learning (PBL) does work in early childhood classrooms. Most common understandings of PBL in Pr...

Specifically designed for administrators and leaders working in early childhood education, this practical guide offers comprehensive resources for ...

Parents have a crucial role in supporting children’s learning, development and wellbeing. Forming effective partnerships with families and carers i...

The Narrative Approach to Informed Consent: Empowering Young Children’s Rights and Meaningful Participation is a practical guide for researchers wh...

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their fin...

How to Use Work Group Supervision to Improve Early Years Practice presents a new model for supervision as a collaborative process, and explores how...

Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space explores the multiple ways that childhood and materiality are intertwined and assembl...

International Thinking on Children in Museums introduces current research, theory, and practice about young learners in museums around the world. T...

Parents have a crucial role in supporting children’s learning, development and wellbeing. Forming effective partnerships with families and carers i...

This ground-breaking book proves that Project Based Learning (PBL) does work in early childhood classrooms. Most common understandings of PBL in Pr...

This text critically examines changes in Ghanaian language and literacy policy following independence in 1957 to consider its impacts on early lite...

The chapters in this book reflect on the major shifts in the views of early childhood thinkers and educators, who have contributed to contemporary ...