Forthcoming Childhood Books

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21. Using Evidence for Advocacy and Resistance in Early Years Services

    Exploring the Pen Green research approach

    Edited by Eddie McKinnon

    Series: Pen Green Books for Early Years Educators

    Insightful and relevant, Using Evidence for Advocacy and Resistance in Early Years Education supports practitioners working in Early Years settings to develop the knowledge and skills required to carry out research into their own practice. Based on the renowned Pen Green approach, which advocates...

    To Be Published November 13th 2013 by Routledge
22. Play Out

    By Learning Through Landscapes

    Play Out is aimed at all those involved with improving the use, design and management of outdoor spaces in early years settings. It provides an inspirational set of resources for planning and implementing physical changes to outdoor environments in order to facilitate high quality learning and play...

    To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
23. Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education

    By Maarit Alasuutari, Ann-Marie Markström, Ann-Christine Vallberg-Roth

    Documentation is early childhood education is typically seen as a means to enhance the quality of care and education, and as a way to take account of the child’s view. This timely book considers the increasing trend towards systematic child documentation especially in early childhood institutions...

    To Be Published December 19th 2013 by Routledge
24. Childhood and Emotion

    Across Cultures 1450-1800

    Edited by Claudia Jarzebowski, Thomas Max Safley

    How did children feel in he Middle Ages and early modern times? How did adults feel about the children around them? This collection addresses these fundemental but rarely asked questions about social and family relations in the past two by bringing together two emerging fields within the new...

    To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
25. The Multimodality of Mark-making in Early Childhood

    By Lesley Lancaster

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    Lancaster uses multimodal theory and methodology in order to comment upon the earliest stages of children’s mark-making, in this innovative new book. Based on a recently completed ESRC project directed by the author, this work demonstrates that well before the age of three,...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
26. The New Early Years Professional

    Dilemmas and Debates, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Angela D. Nurse

    Issues to do with early years are a government and national focus in the UK. In England the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage and the extension of the Early Years Professional Status programme have brought with them new questions for practitioners, both philosophically and...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
27. Risk, Challenge and Adventure in the Early Years

    By Kathryn Solly

    What is the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘danger’? What can children learn from taking risks? How can you provide key experiences for children and ensure their safety outdoors? Young children will naturally seek out challenges and take risks and this is crucial to their overall development. This...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
28. Infant & Toddler Development and Curriculum

    Embracing Growth and Defining Learning from Cradle to Classroom

    By Cindy Bess

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
29. Education for Sustainable Development in the Early Years

    By John Siraj-Blatchford, Ingrid Pramling

    It is in early childhood that the foundations of many of our fundamental attitudes and values are first put into place. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is all about the future and it is young children who have the greatest stake as citizens in the future. This book provides an...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
30. Sense-ational Play!

    Experiential learning in the early years

    By Alice Sharp

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge