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Family Involvement in Early Education and Child Care
This volume encourages reflection on previous volumes. Family involvement has been an issue in early education going back to Pestalozzi almost two centuries ago. This book looks at what advances in the area of family involvement in early education have been made since the publication of the previous volume.
The Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Grant
Focuses on the implementation of professional development for early childhood educators, describing a number of models for improving early childhood care. This title provides future developers of professional development with a road map for what works and what might not be as effective.
Learning Across the Early Childhood Curriculum
Education, according to John Dewey, should be viewed as dynamic and ongoing with direct teaching of integrated content knowledge. This volume offers readers an examination of the content areas in early childhood curriculum that honor Dewey's belief in active, integrated learning.
Theory in Context and Out
Theory in and out of Context furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. Play, as a human and animal activity, can be understood in terms of cultural, social, evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.This effort necessarily includes inquiry from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, psychology, education, biology, anthropology, and leisure studies. Work from a number of those disciplines is represented in this book. This volume includes sections covering Foundations and Theory of Play, Gender and Children's Play, Theory of Mind, Adult-Child Play, and Classroom Play. Scholarly analyses and reports of research from diverse disciplines amplify our understanding of play in Western and non-Western societies.
Early Education in a Global Context
Discusses professional development in several contexts, children's understandings and programs for children. This book should give the reader an idea of the range of work that is being done around the globe. It brings together insider perspectives on early education in different contexts.
Early Childhood and Special Education
This volume consists of unique interdisciplinary contributions and approaches to providing early intervention services and early education for children with special needs in the early years.
Play & Culture Studies, Volume 2
This work is the second in a series concerned with furthering our understanding of the phenomenon of play in humans and in animals, and across various cultural, social and activity settings.
Discussions on Sensitive Issues
This volume contains chapters that invite conversations about sensitive issues to help educators, children and families use real-life experiences to construct knowledge about their world and other people.
From Children to Red Hatters
The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) is the sponsor of this eighth volume in the Play & Culture Studies series. TASP is a professional group of researchers who study play. The focus of this eighth volume of the Play & Culture Studies series is on how play takes many forms as it cuts across species, ages, and cultures. The articles in this volume present current theoretical and empirical research on play and culture from a variety of disciplines including psychology, education, animal studies, and sociology. Applications to practice and policy implications are presented as well. Volume 8 continues the tradition of the Play & Culture series by presenting a view of play that is broad in scope both in terms of the subjects of study and the ways in which researchers approach the study of these diverse forms of play.
Investigating Play in the 21st Century
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