Supporting Identity, Diversity and Language in the Early Years (Supporting Early Learning)

This book provides the main ingredients for professional development in working with young children in a diverse society. It fills the gap that most early years training neglects, that is, how to work with children in developing a positive disposition towards themselves regardless of their differences. By helping children to develop a strong self-identity and good self-esteem we set the foundations for positive attitudes towards others and towards learning. Practical advice, real examples and staff activities bring the book to life. The book provides clear evidence and practical guidance on how to develop young children's emerging language, especially those children who have English as an additional language, and how to generate, activate and assess curriculum for diversity. The book focuses on all children's learning for cultural diversity. Culture is used as a broad term to include language, ethnicity, social class and gender. Each chapter offers a clear combination of theory and practice and ends with excellent staff development activities and further readings. The book will be important reading for all students and practitioners working with young children.

Supporting Identity, Diversity And Language In The Early Years (Supporting Early Learning)

Education & Teaching

Siraj-Blatchford,Iram

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

Book by Siraj-Blatchford, Iram, Clarke, Priscilla

Clarke, Priscilla

Open Univ Pr

There are a growing number of courses on early childhood education at university level. This has placed new demands on both students and staff as research is a key feature of many of these courses. Research training is an important element in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in early childhood education and there is a genuine need for an accessible textbook that addresses the particular research issues which are a feature of this important field. Doing Early Childhood Research introduces the most common qualitative and quantitative methods in the early childhood context. The contributors cover a wide range of conventional and newer approaches including observation, surveys, action research, ethnography, policy analysis and poststructuralist approaches. The reader is shown step by step how to select a topic, review the literature, design their research project, analyse data and produce a report. Throughout the emphasis is on practical application of the methods and the text is illustrated by a wide range of examples and case studies. Each chapter includes checklists, explanations of key concepts, annotated further reading and questions for reflection. Written by leading international early childhood researchers, this book is a standard introduction to research in the early childhood field.

Doing Early Childhood Research: Theory and Practice

Mac Naughton,Glenda

Rolfe,Sharne

Since it was first published in 1981, Sociology of Educating has become a firmly established text in its field. This fourth edition retains much of the structure and content of its predecessors, whilst benefiting from significant changes which take account of educational issues that have arisen and developed in recent years.The text covers a wide range of topics clearly, and in depth. They include further education, home-based teaching, educational research and grading and examining. In line with current thinking, this edition places increased emphasis on educating outside and beyond the school, and pre-school. Every chapter ends with "signposts" which encourage students to pursue ideas and themes raised in the text, and the references and suggestions for further reading have been comprehensively updated and expanded to facilitate this. Completely redesigned for greater accessibility, this new edition of Sociology of Educating is ideal for student teachers as well as experienced teachers and educationalists wishing to reinforce their earlier studies.

Sociology of Educating: Fourth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Meighan, Roland

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury Academic

The fourth edition of this text retains much of the structure and content of the third edition, whilst benefiting from significant changes which take account of educational issues that have arisen in recent years. The text covers a wide range of topics clearly, and in depth, including: further education, home-based teaching, educational research and grading and examining.In line with current thinking, this edition places increased emphasis on educating outside and beyond the school, and pre-school. Every chapter ends with "signposts" which encourage students to pursue ideas and themes raised in the text, and the references and suggestions for further reading have been comprehensively updated and expanded to facilitate this.

A Sociology of Educating

Walker, st

Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd)

This revised edition of the ECERS-E transforms the research edition published in 2003 into an immensely practical handbook for providers of early education.The ECERS-E, developed by Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, and Brenda Taggart, is an instrument to measure quality in literacy, numeracy, science, and diversity as observable in pre-school settings. The sub-scales are an internationally recognized measure of quality in early education and care.This practical new edition has drawn on collaboration around the world. The authors have clarified and improved it, so transforming the instrument into a valuable manual for institutional self-assessment and for improving pedagogy and curriculum in pre-school settings so that young children’s learning and development can flourish.

Assessing Quality In The Early Years: Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-E)

Sylva, Kathy

Taggart, Brenda

Trentham Books

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