Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Contemporary ResearchKatherine M. Hirst, Kath Hirst, Cathy Nutbrown Fifteen original research accounts are described by the experienced early childhood professionals who carried them out. The research focuses on early childhood services and settings; gender and disability issues in provision and play and on how adults influence children's learning. Each account also identifies methodological issues and suggests further reading. The contributors work in a variety of settings and services in and outside the UK. The issues researched include: playgroups in the 21st Century; practitioners' responses to legislative change; the involvement of qualified teachers in voluntary pre-school; transferring from a Montessori nursery to a state reception class; men in the early childhood workforce; gender discourses in children's homes; gender through the eyes of girls; including young children with disabilities; working with under threes; children's drawings; children's reading choices; adults' perceptions of play; children's acquisition of thinking skills; reflective practice in early years work. The book is written for students researching in the ever expanding field of early childhood education and care and for the wide range of practitioners seeking to underpin their practice with current research. |
Contents
Montessori Nursery School to a state reception class 43 | 43 |
PART 2 | 55 |
Chapter 7 | 63 |
Chapter 9 | 85 |
PART 3 | 93 |
rural primary school | 141 |
Chapter 14 | 151 |
Chapter 15 | 163 |
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Common terms and phrases
activity adults approach asked assessment babies Buckingham chil child childcare children's drawings children's learning context Curriculum Guidance Department for Education DfEE dialogue discourses dren Early Childhood Education early education ethnic minority experience EYDOS favourite books feel Foundation Stage gender identity girls Goldschmied grounded theory groups HMSO identified Imogen impact important individual interaction interview involved issues key person learning through play Lesley Abbott literacy London Montessori setting Moss mother National nursery education nursery nurse Nutbrown observations Ofsted Open University Open University Press parents participants Paul Chapman Peter Elfer photographs prac practitioners pre-school playgroups programming pupils questions reception class reception teachers reflective practice Reggio Emilia relationships Republic of Vietnam responses rights-based role Save the Children Selleck skills social staff suggests talk teaching theory thinking tion Tricia David understanding Vietnam Vietnamese views young children