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ISBN 10: 0415465257

ISBN 13: 9780415465250

Author: Sandra Smidt

Key Issues in Early Years Education is the second edition of The Early Years: A Reader. This essential text for students and professionals is unique in its range of voices and topics and in its determination to see the child as central to learning and development. As in the first edition it not only has chapters written by key figures in the field of early childhood education and care but also by students on a range of early childhood programmes. Notable key figures from the first edition have been added including Helen Penn, Henrietta Dombey, Hilary Faust and Charmian Kenner. Rosemary Nalden, who is involved in significant work with children in South Africa, has added her voice to give us examples of children acting both as learners and teachers. This fully revised collection is a comprehensive investigation into the key issues in early years education which: provides a blend of real life examples and theory, drawn from a diversity of early childhood settings and classes is written in an accessible voice brings theory to life by linking it with practice examines how children explore, express and represent their worlds. Many of the original sections have been revised and updated to take account of changes to the education system over the last decade. Two new sections in this edition are Children as Thinkers and Problem-Solvers and Learning: A Second Chance, which looks at adults learning something new and considers the similarities and differences that might exist between them and children. This fascinating and highly readable book will be of interest to teachers, practitioners, students and anyone concerned with the care and education of our youngest children.

Table of contents:

1 What is basic for young children?

PART I How young children learn

2 A developmental approach to the curriculum in the early years

3 Does it matter what country you are in?: Are all children the same everywhere or does it matter where you are?

4 Play: The powerful means of learning in the early years

PART II Understanding children

5 Observing symbolic play

6 Under the microscope

7 Her eyes are flashing and her ears are sore

8 Louise drawing

9 Patterns of play: Observing and supporting young children’s schemas

PART III All our children

10 Supporting young children

11 Learning about writing through bilingual peer teaching

12 How can bilingual children be supported in negotiating home and school environments in their early years?

13 Storysacks: A piece of action research

14 My dream school: A booklet for parents

PART IV Children as thinkers and problem-solvers

15 Mathematical development in the Early Years Foundation Stage: Problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy

16 Tricks

17 ‘Let’s make honey’

18 Making ice

PART V Understanding the written world

19 It all starts with /c/ /a/ /t/ – or does it? Foundation phonics

20 Talking in your head: Young children’s developing understanding of the reading process

21 Hannah and her books

22 A poem

23 Learning to read made easy: A study of one child’s development as a reader

24 My life as a reader

PART VI Representing thoughts and feelings

25 Scaffolding Caitlin’s learning

26 The workshop table: A stepping stone in the visual arts

27 Transformation through music: The impact of classical music on the lives of township children

PART VII Learning: A second chance

28 Late early learning: A 64-year-old begins to play the viola

29 A second string?

30 Musicology to music-making: A late learner becomes a late starter

31 Becoming a sculptor

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