Early Childhood Education: Books & eBooks

This book begins by pushing back on the kind of rote routines that lack opportunities for reasoning (like the calendar) that teachers often use in early childhood and primary classrooms. Instead, the author offers innovations on old routines and some new routines that encourage reasoning, argumentation, and the development of important math ideas.

"This edition provides a comprehensive approach to implementing practices that ensure all young children have access to high-quality early learning. New resources in the book and online support higher education faculty, K-3 leaders, and early childhood educators in extending their own and others' knowledge and application of developmentally appropriate practice."-- Back cover

This book grew out of a three-year study of one child, documenting her social, emotional and cognitive development. It provides a valuable insight for all students and teachers of child development at the individual level. This is an essential book for students and practitioners involved in research and observation in early years settings.

Takes a developmental approach to media literacy, mapping out what early childhood educators need to do in the earliest years to lay the foundations for the sophisticated skills that we expect of media literate adults and digital citizens.