Effective Early Years Education

by Anne Edwards; Peter Knight

• ISBN13: 9780335191888
• ISBN10: 0335191886
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-12-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill UK

Summary

In this concise and accessible guide, the authors are sympathetic to the particular demands of teaching three to eight year olds and offer practical solutions to the complex issues that are currently faced by early years educators. In recognizing the demands on practitioners, they provide new and challenging frameworks for an understanding of the practice of teaching young children and draw upon international research to offer a sound model of early years subject-structured teaching which has the quality of children's learning at its centre. Their aim is to support teacher expertise through stimulating teachers' thinking about children's development, motivation, ways of learning and the subjects they teach. These topics are clearly set in the complex institutional settings in which practitioners work and ways of taking and evaluating action are offered.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: education from three to eight	p. 1
Becoming a pupil	p. 8
Children's learning	p. 21
A curriculum for the early years	p. 38
Subjects and the early years curriculum	p. 58
The organization of the learning environment	p. 93
Parents and professionals	p. 110
Developing the curriculum	p. 123
Developing the organization	p. 143
Endpiece	p. 155
References	p. 157
Index	p. 164
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