ECED - Early Childhood Education: Research Materials

This unique and engaging resource describes, critiques and analyses the significance of a wide range of contemporary and classic ideas about how young children learn. Students on early years education courses at a range of levels will find this an essential and enlightening companion text, for use throughout their studies.

This title addresses the challenge of developing an awareness of each child's needs and interests in your setting, and planning accordingly. The book covers: supporting others in their planning and leading change, the reason for planning and how to develop professional planning skills.

It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions.

Innovative, practical, and easy to use, Creative Materials and Activities for the Early Childhood Curriculum is the ideal research-based resource for helping all children from infancy through grade five learn in, through, and with the arts, while meeting national and state standards.

Retaining its popular approach and style, this new edition reflects the contemporary context of early childhood education and care as well emerging research on young children's development. The emphasis remains firmly on demonstrating the excellence of play and its contribution to children's overall learning and development in the early years, and the role of adults in promoting inspirational playful pedagogies. It offers new coverage on topics such as brain development, gender, babies' play, cultural diversity and inclusion, children as researchers, new technologies, outdoor play and international dimensions

Explore taste-safe small worlds, create colorful pieces of art, and engage all five senses while investigating the great outdoors. Inside the book, you'll find forty easy sensory play tubs and activities with extra bonus ideas for extending the activities even further! Sensory play allows our little learners to make connections as they explore the world around them using their senses of sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch.

This book will not only familiarize anyone who reads to young children with the essentials of promoting early and emerging literacy, but also contains more than 25 ready-to-go activities that can be immediately used to foster this critical skill development.

This thoughtful book suggests small but powerful adjustments to instruction that will increase reading independence. It examines how mainstays such as Read-Aloud and Shared, Guided, and Independent Reading look in classrooms where students do most of the work.