- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This comprehensive guide to the core areas of early learning and childcare is designed to equip students to synthesise theory, research and practice to become reflective, evidence-based practitioners. Featuring a diverse and experienced team of authors, this essential book covers policy, theories of childhood, professional development and urgent issues impacting the sector today such as diversity and inclusion, being trauma-aware and children's rights.
Each chapter includes case studies, key ideas, views from practice, questions and more helping to bring topics to life, making this a rich resource that will support your studies. Dr Mike Carroll is a retired Senior Lecturer currently working as an Associate Tutor in Education at the University of Glasgow, Education Consultant and the co-author of Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education (2018). Mary Wingrave, is a Senior Associate Tutor and was formerly a Senior Lecture in Education at the University of Glasgow
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Table List
- Selected acronyms
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Policy and legislative context of non-compulsory care and education (NCE) in the UK
- 1 Legislative and policy frameworks: practice and implementation
- 2 Safeguarding and protecting children: from policy to practice
- 3 Diversity, equity and inclusion in early years
- 4 Children’s rights and the UNCRC
- Part II Contexts of childhood
- 5 Theories of child development
- 6 Contemporary perspectives of children and childhood
- 7 Personal, social and emotional development
- 8 Attachment-focused and trauma-aware early Childhood Practice
- Part III Early learning
- 9 Creating learning environments
- 10 Early language and literacy development
- 11 Early mathematical development
- 12 Digital learning in early childhood
- Part IV Perspectives on play
- 13 Playful pedagogy
- 14 Space to play
- 15 Outdoor learning
- Part V Developing the non-compulsory care and education workforce
- 16 Professionalisation of the non-compulsory sector in the UK
- 17 Professional learning and the reflexive practitioner
- 18 Professional inquiry
- 19 Evaluation in childcare settings
- Part VI The wider context of non-compulsory care and education
- 20 Leadership and management in Childhood Practice
- 21 Working in partnership
- 22 International perspectives on childcare provision and practice
- References
- Index