Early Years Books

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51. Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children

    An Introduction for Students, 2nd Edition

    By Sue Robson

    Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children’s developing thinking and understanding. Throughout this second edition, the ideas and theories presented are enlivened by transcripts of...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
52. Monsters Under the Bed

    Critically investigating early years writing

    By Andrew Melrose

    Monsters Under the Bed is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for ‘early years’ children. Containing a critically creative and a creatively critical investigation of the cult and culture of the child and childhood in fiction and non-fictional writing,...

    Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
53. Professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Carmen Dalli, Mathias Urban

    The professionalism of the early childhood sector has gained prominence on the policy agendas of many countries. National pedagogical frameworks or curricula and an upsurge of pathways to gaining or upgrading qualifications has led to a pervasive terminology of professionalism. Yet, despite the...

    Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
54. Children and Schooling

    By Phillip Gammage

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    The book provides a synthesis of a broadly-based social-psychology of education and bridges the gap between theory and practice in education by emphasising the relationship between research and actuality. The author discusses the major issues in childhood socialisation relating to schooling,...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
55. Primary Understanding

    Education in Early Childhood

    By Kieran Egan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
56. The Education of Children Under Seven

    By Mary Sturt

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book does not cover the whole field of Infants’ Teaching but is concerned mainly with general principles and matters which are open to the non-specialist. Some technical subjects such as Physical Education have been omitted but nonetheless the volume provides a thorough (if somewhat dated)...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
57. Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Doris Fromberg, Leslie Williams

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
58. Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set C: Early Childhood Education 5 vol set

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Mini-set C: Early Childhood Education re-issues 5 volumes originally published between 1913 and 1992. Over that period, but particularly in the last 4 decades, educational policy makers have become increasingly aware of the importance of early childhood education. There are many...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
59. Children's Play and Its Place in Education

    With an Appendix on the Montessori Method

    By Walter De Burley Wood

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Published long before the importance of early childhood education was formally recognised in the educational landscape this book explores the significance of play for young children. The volume includes an appendix on Montessori education....

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
60. Broken Ground

    John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education

    By Lawrence McAndrews

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Throughout United States history, and particularly from the 1930s through the 1960s, education was a sensitive political issue which preoccupied Congresses, Presidents and interest groups. By the time of John F Kennedy’s Presidency federal aid to education was all but inevitable but the...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge