Bücher der Reihe Advances in Early Education & Day Care

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This volume addresses two major areas of inquiry in the field of early childhood education and care. The first section of the book includes scholarly reviews on early childhood education and care and its conceptual bases. Section two presents the first in a series on reconceptualizing play.

Documents some of the ongoing work occurring in early childhood settings that is aimed at improving, and transforming, early childhood practice in these changed and changing times. This book provides readers with possibilities for enacting pedagogies that are responsive to the contemporary circumstances shaping the lives of young children.

Presents an academic forum for the publication of original research, critical reviews and conceptual analyses of theoretical and substantive issues related to the education, care and development of young children.

"Foundations, Adult Dynamics, Teacher Education and Play".

This is the eighth volume in an annual series designed to provide an academic forum for the publication of original research, critical reviews and conceptual analyses of theoretical and substantive issues related to the education, care and development of young children.

Presents papers that identify issues and challenges facing child development laboratory programs nationwide as they seek to solidify the roles they play within the child development and early childhood education fields.