This series is aimed at students and professionals working with or for children and their families in the pre-birth to eight years-old age range. Books in the series will promote critical reflective practice at graduate level, with commentary on professional practice from different perspectives, critical debate, and underpinning research evidence and theory. All books in the series include helpful visual guides to chapter contents, case studies to illustrate and contextualise the theory, critical questions to develop higher level academic skills, and reflections on key ideas. The series is edited by Chelle Davison and Susan Waltham.
By Pat Tomlinson
September 17, 2013
A comprehensive and up to date text for all those required to understand early years’ policy and practice. It provides a succinct insight into key elements of the national and international political, economic and social agendas that influence and affect young children’s lives, and the impact of ...
By Monica Edwards, Chelle Davison
April 15, 2015
This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years courses that include a module on global childhoods. Taking an ecological approach, it examines how culture and society shape childhoods through considering the lived experiences of children internationally. It begins by questioning ...
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By Verity Campbell-Barr, Janet Georgeson
January 14, 2015
This up to date text is suitable for students on all early years and early childhood courses as well as interested practitioners. It looks at the current structure of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce in different countries, each of which represents a distinct philosophical ...
By Caroline Bligh, Sue Chambers, Chelle Davison, Ian Lloyd, Jackie Musgrave, June O'Sullivan, Susan Waltham
September 30, 2013
A multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to the well-being of young children to support child development modules on a variety of programmes. The emotional, physical and social well-being of young children is a prime area of the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and is at the forefront of ...