Pre-school & Kindergarten

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...

Over the past few decades, a growing body of literature has developed which examines childrens perspectives of their own lives, viewing them as soc...

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

The violent imagination begins in experiences of violation against the self and grows through the stories, myths, folktales and anecdotes of everyd...

How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers?How do teachers mediate the demands of the ed...

The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regu...

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapte...

This definitive resource provides a comprehensive range of activities and materials enabling you to equip your staff with the knowledge, confidence...

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...

Much of current educational theory and research at the time was concerned with the effect that pre-school education should have in accelerating dev...

This book brings a refreshing Vygotskian perspective to the importance of childrens play, and the role it has in the physical, social, emotional an...

Methods for Teaching in Early Education is a comprehensive textbook offering a thorough introduction to early childhood teaching methods, with a pa...

This practical and accessible guide tackles the challenges that busy childcare educators face with their mental health in what is a wonderful, rewa...

First published in 1942, Testing Results in the Infant School describes an attempt to measure objectively the results of education in Infant school...

What does it mean to teach English creatively to primary school children? Teaching English Creatively encourages and enables teachers to adopt a mo...

What does it mean to teach English creatively to primary school children? Teaching English Creatively encourages and enables teachers to adopt a mo...

Drawing from first-hand discussions and interviews, this essential guide offers an in-depth, realistic overview of bringing up a child with complex...

Cognitive style, a psychological construct, characterizes individual differences in styles of perceiving, remembering, thinking and judging. Origin...

Many teachers use traditional counting and shape books in math class. But what would happen if we approached any story with a math lens? How might ...

This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and Nature Pedagogy and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underp...

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

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...

As one of Britain's most original thinkers and writers Colin Ward wrote extensively about positive and practical examples from the past and present...

Combining literacy lessons with wellbeing, this accessible guide, full of practical lesson plans and photocopiable activities is the ideal resource...

Combining literacy lessons with wellbeing, this accessible guide, full of practical lesson plans and photocopiable activities is the ideal resource...