Extending professional practice in the early years /
edited by Linda Miller, Rose Drury and Carrie Cable.
- xi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Published in association with the Open University.
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Listening to children. Ways of seeing: using the Mosaic approach to listen to young children's perspectives / Alison Clark -- Is my city or community child-friendly? / Dora Giusti, Roger Hart and Selim Iltus -- Horses in the sandpit: photography, prolonged involvement and 'stepping back' as strategies for listening to children's voices / Alison Stephenson -- Conducting research with young children: some ethical considerations / Rosie Flewitt -- Promoting young children's development: implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Martin Woodhead -- pt. 2. Diversity and transitions. Questioning diversity / Jeanette Rhedding-Jones -- Inclusive practice for children with special educational needs / Christine Hickman and Kyffin Jones -- Childcare practitioners and the process of professionalization / Jan Peeters and Michel Vandenbroeck -- Reflective family-centred practices: parents' perspectives and early intervention / Alice Paige-Smith, Jonathan Rix and Anna Craft -- The challenges for children experiencing rural poverty in Wales / Siān Wyn Siencyn -- 'Just like having a best friend': how babies and toddlers construct relationships with their key workers in nurseries / Liz Brooker -- 'I didn't expect that I would get tons of friends ... more each day': children's experiences of friendship during the transition to school / Sally Peters -- Post modern and post-structuralist perspectives on early childhood education / Deborah Albon -- pt. 3. Pedagogy and practice. 'Improper' children / Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes, Christina MacRae and Maggie MacLure -- Digital technologies at home: the experiences of 3- and 4-year olds in Scotland / Christine Stephen, Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman -- A cultural-historical theory of children's development / Mariane Hedegaard -- Through a different lens: exploring Reggio Emilia in a Welsh context / Trisha Maynard and Sarah Chicken -- Pedagogy: a holistic, personal approach to work with children and young people, across services / Pat Petrie, Janet Boddy, Claire Cameron, Ellen Heptinstall, Susan McQuail, Antonia Simon and Valerie Wigfall -- pt. 4. Leadership and change. Constructions of professional identity / Gill McGillivray -- Leading and managing in the early years / Mary E. Whalley -- Building and leading a team / Jillian Rodd -- Effective leadership in the early years sector: the ELEYS study / Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Laura Manni -- Negotiating the moral maze: developing ethical literacy in multi-agency settings / Judith Whitmarsh.
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Early childhood education--Great Britain Teaching--Practice--Great Britain