Pre-school & Kindergarten

A valuable resource for professionals working with pre-school children, or with older children lacking basic literacy skills, this book provides pr...

Collins International English Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years an...

A comprehensive theory-to-practice guidebook, Supporting Literacies for Children of Color argues for a new strength-based view of teaching to suppo...

The Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children is the essential reference on research on early childhood education throughout the worl...

What are the goals of Early Years education? A lot of people ask this question and receive answers ranging from keeping children safe; introducing ...

This accessible book offers essential guidance and practical ideas for Early Years staff to support children with social, emotional and mental heal...

Now in its second edition, this popular text explores classrooms where technology and critical literacies are woven into childhood curricula and te...

This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-firstcentury by offering an in-depth overview of children and their...

This accessible guide will inform, prompt and inspire practitioners as they develop their own creativity and seize the rich opportunities offered b...

Learning for the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a richly informed argument for curricular change to educate people towards achievement and succe...

This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability—and what enables it—in the ea...

British Froebelian Women from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century presents a series of critical case studies of individual women who wor...

Designed to assist educators of young children in building awareness of their roles as members of a global community in an increasingly divided wor...

Collins International Science Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years an...

Why are development discourses of the ‘poor child’ in need of radical revision? What are the theoretical and methodological challenges and...

This sequel to the bestselling Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories reveals the positive impact the storytelling and story acting curriculum ...

The importance of the early years in young children’s lives and the rigid inequality in literacy achievement are a stimulating backdrop to current ...

Helping Every Child to Thrive in the Early Years shows how a personalised and relationship-based approach to education and care can help overcome t...

Discover new and exciting ways to teach STEM content through the arts in your early childhood program with this innovative and comprehensive guideb...

Speech and Language in the Early Years is an accessible resource, packed full of practical ideas and techniques to support speech and language deve...

Why should we embrace technology? How can it make the practitioner’s role easier?This book is the answer to these questions, equipping Early Years ...

Drawing on the latest research into how young children learn, this book considers how early years practitioners can best meet the needs of children...

Why should we embrace technology? How can it make the practitioner’s role easier?This book is the answer to these questions, equipping Early Years ...

This volume extends the knowledge base supporting research-informed child care for infants and toddlers, while simultaneously highlighting areas of...

The educational provision for early years is growing and changing across many parts of the world, not least in the UK. While this book leans heavil...

How children’s development is shaped by Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) classrooms and especially by teacher–child interactions in those ...

This book offers pre-service and practicing teachers the tools, materials, teaching strategies, and theoretical understandings to implement an orga...

This book investigates parental engagement in the transition to school in China and Australia, which were taken as representatives of Eastern and W...

First published in 1968, Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a workin...

The field of reading is a compelling one, characterised by many debates and discussions. It is also amenable to investigations through a range of t...

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a cle...

Promoting British Values in the Early Years explores what is meant by British values and how these can be promoted in the Early Years Foundation S...

Engaging Preschoolers in Mathematics is a guide for teachers and childcare professionals working at the Pre-K level that focuses on engagement with...

The second edition of this text shows how play and literacy can combine to help young children develop a more complete understanding of writing, as...

With the increased focus on children’s language in Early Years education, poetry can be a valuable tool in enhancing speaking, listening and commun...

Bringing together the essential theory, research and policy with examples from practice, Work-based Practice in the Early Years: A Guide for Studen...

Cognitive Development from a Strategy Perspective recognises the outstanding scientific legacy of Robert S. Siegler as a pioneer of modern research...

Understanding and Managing Children’s Behaviour through Group Work Ages 3-5 provides the reader with an insight into children’s emotional well-bein...

For all involved in teaching young children, this timely book offers the necessary tool with which to develop a broad, creative and inspirational v...

Self-regulation has been identified as an important predictor of school readiness and academic achievement in young children. Children who struggle...

How a staff team works together and how effective and cohesive they are impacts significantly on the children that they care for as well as having ...

In the early nineteenth century, governments developed kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinge...

Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school ...

Clear, practical advice and strategies to help you implement inquiry-based education.

What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers’ practices create schooled and literate st...

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Earl...

Clear, practical advice and strategies to help you implement inquiry-based education.

Clear, practical advice and strategies to help you implement inquiry-based education.