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...