Pre-school & Kindergarten

This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive resource provides all the information necessary both to avoid and to prepare for special education disputes. This...

It is not uncommon to hear the myth that young children develop in the same way, or that play does not come naturally to disabled or neurodivergent...

Waldorf Education: An all-round, balanced approach to education that is equally concerned with intellectual-cognitive and artistic-creative learnin...

It is not uncommon to hear the myth that young children develop in the same way, or that play does not come naturally to disabled or neurodivergent...

Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, ...

First published in 1917, Physical Education in Relation to School Life views the problems of growth and health in relation to education. The main o...

Following on from their ground-breaking first book, Delivering the Best Start, Rankin and Brock return to the subject of pre-school and early years...

This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive resource provides all the information necessary both to avoid and to prepare for special education disputes. This...

This book is unique in presenting new perspectives on how to introduce interculturality to children. It proposes critical ideas for introducing sen...

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate a...

This comprehensive guide offers simple and effective strategies for supporting and improving the classroom behavior of all your students, including...

This comprehensive guide offers simple and effective strategies for supporting and improving the classroom behavior of all your students, including...

Making an important contribution to the growing body of literature addressing the issue of sustainability in the Early Years, Sandra Smidt provides...

Returning Learning explores early school years teachers’ perceptions of nature and how this informs their pedagogy through a posthuman theoretical ...

The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and...

Coding as a Playground, Second Edition focuses on how young children (aged 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to becom...

This book brings together innovative work happening in childhood research across disciplinary boundaries and across the world. It focuses specifica...

The first volume in this Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries ...

Fully updated to reflect the current status and understandings regarding outdoor provision within early childhood education frameworks across the U...

Growing Children’s Social and Emotional Skills examines how parent–educator partnerships can be achieved to enhance the development of children’s s...

Adopting a fresh approach to the assumptions and concepts which underlie musical learning, Taking a Learner-Centred Approach to Music Education pro...

Beyond Piggy Banks is written for you: the loving, responsible and overworked parents of young children. It takes the stress and mystery out of fin...

Change is now a dominant feature of early childhood systems around the globe and many countries are currently facing significant economic, social a...

This innovative text offers a unique approach to making mathematics education research on addition, subtraction, and number concepts readily access...

This accessible text encourages readers to understand and confidently engage with distinctive early years pedagogy. It shows how pedagogy not only ...

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports...

Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped b...

Adopting a fresh approach to the assumptions and concepts which underlie musical learning, Taking a Learner-Centred Approach to Music Education pro...

Our children grow up into a world of stories—in books, on screens—but what do they make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel a...

The goal of this edited volume is to share ideas and examples of impactful practices useful for teacher educators in Early Childhood Education degr...

This powerful edited collection disrupts the deficit-oriented discourses that currently frame the field of early childhood education (ECE) and illu...

The Inclusive Classroom: Creating a Cherished Experience through Montessori brings together experts in Montessori Education and Special Education f...

In response to growing pressure on early years practitioners to adopt a ‘tick-box’ approach to recording children’s progress, Celebrating Children’...

Speech, language, and communication are key to young children’s well-being and development. At a time when communication contexts and modalities ar...

The Handbook of Classroom Management, Third Edition, is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom ...

Teaching Children to Listen in the Early Years contains a wealth of interventions to teach young children the rules of good listening and why they ...

Parents and early childhood teachers know that reading aloud to children is important, but the specific things that adults do while reading with ch...

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Re-examined, Reclaimed, Renewed critically and thoroughly examines key questions, aims, and approaches in ...

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe an...

Originally published in 1974. This is an enlightening guide to the teaching of reading in response to the desire to motivate children to read and w...

Diversifying Pedagogy in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs presents the underlying message of situating diversity at the core of early c...

Universal Design for Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom, Second Edition focuses on proactively designing PreK through Grade 3 classroom inst...

Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of Goldman with a child’s religious thought, there had hi...

First published in 1998, this volume is based upon an ethnographic study of white and black in a mixed comprehensive school conducted during the 19...

Capturing Children’s Meanings in Early Childhood Research and Practice draws together contemporary research and established theories to produce a u...

Inspired by the first-hand experiences of those studying early childhood education and care, this book supports students as they gain advanced know...

The Handbook of Classroom Management, Third Edition, is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom ...

Evaluating Early Learning in Museums presents developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices for engaging early learners and their f...