Pre-school & Kindergarten

This book explores how young childrens language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place. The term context not o...

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

Are you looking for one book that gives a comprehensive account of primary/elementary and early years English, language and literacy teaching? Base...

Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the childrens workforce, including carers, qualified teachers, parents an...

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline phil...

Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners. This book provides creative, hands-on strategies for developing preschool...

The professionalism of the early childhood sector has gained prominence on the policy agendas of many countries. National pedagogical frameworks or...

This highly popular and accessible text contains a wealth of information about how early years staff can work effectively with professionals and pa...

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

Care and caring are key to early childhood education and yet love can be viewed as a taboo word within early childhood settings. This book guides p...

Early childhood provision for babies and toddlers is in a critical phase. While governments are pushing for fast-paced expansion, mainly to support...

Fast Childcare in Public Preschools presents an ethnographic examination of the implementation of fast-policy management models and the efforts of ...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

Ever faced challenges motivating clients to participate in speech therapy practice at home? Directing parents to helpful resources that reinforce a...

The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners is a comprehensive and accessible course text for all degree level students undertaking pro...

Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they ...

Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments guides its readers to the characteristics that tend to generate a sense of place through childrens...

This annotated anthology documents historical trends and basic findings regarding music in early childhood education, development, and care. The pa...

This book is an exploration of how children, educators, and things become implicated in gendered caring practices. Drawing on a collaborative resea...

Originally published in 1988, this volume presented a new understanding of how teachers in early childhood education helped children learn. It care...

This new text is the only resource out there to address the needs of todays early years students/trainees and support them through every stage of t...

Now in a fully updated second edition, Nature Education and Young Children remains a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory ...

If outdoor activities with young children have always baffled you, then this is the book for you. Practical in style and structure, it has an acces...

The conceptualisation and practice of play is considered core to early childhood pedagogy. In this essential text, contributors from a range of cou...

This book offers a step-by-step guide to implementing a play-based curriculum in Year 1 while fully achieving the National Curriculum objectives. T...

Working with Young Children in Museums makes a major contribution to the small body of extant research on young children in museums, galleries and ...

This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the mental health of young children through outdoor play.Prom...

Religious events and cultural celebrations form an important part of societies throughout the world. They are key to social development and underst...

This book captures the now burgeoning research field of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and comprises insights from an ever-wi...

This book explores creative development in babies and shows how practitioners can support even the youngest childs natural curiosity and help them ...

This book explores creative development in babies and shows how practitioners can support even the youngest childs natural curiosity and help them ...

The importance of early childhood education has been emphasized by a large body of research that has demonstrated that childrens cognitive and soci...

This text presents a methodical, organized approach to counseling students in emotional intelligence (EI) by detailing how to understand and direct...

Whilst recognition of the role and nature of creativity and interest in creative pedagogical practice has grown, tensions persist at several levels...

Young Childrens Play: Development, Disabilities, and Diversity is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to a...

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Help...

Language and communication skills are a key foundation of child development. This accessible and engaging resource enables early years educators to...

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee f...

This inspiring text celebrates young children as 'emergent biologists' and explains how their natural inquisitiveness and curiosity can be harnesse...

In this unique and original book, Jamel Carly Campbell and Sonia Mainstone-Cotton come together to have an open and honest conversation about devel...

In spite of our apparently connected global environment, people are becoming less connected. Digital communication leads to fewer face-to-face enga...

The Literacy of Play and Innovation provides a portrait of what innovative education looks like from a literacy perspective. Through an in-depth ca...

In this unique and original book, Jamel Carly Campbell and Sonia Mainstone-Cotton come together to have an open and honest conversation about devel...

The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary...

Based on a rich seam of research evidence, this book leverages value in engaging with scientific enquiry to further understanding of young children...

This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the mental health of young children through outdoor play.Prom...

Seeing young children as competent and capable social actors, The Theory and Practice of Voice in Early Childhood looks at how we can better unders...

Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there ha...