Child Development for Early Years Students and Practitioners
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Child Development for Early Years Students and Practitioners

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eBook - ePub

Child Development for Early Years Students and Practitioners

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About This Book

This accessible guide to child development is for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines and for early years practitioners.
*Introduces the context of child development
*Develops an understanding of development and of how early years practitioners can support this
*Explores the biological/social debate, and the importance of holistic development
*Examines factors affecting development and includes a chapter on reflective practice
*Considers the complexity of children?s development and argues that is is not always a straight forward progression This fifth edition:
*is updated in line with the new EYFS and the updated Development Matters;
*is updated to include child development learning from 0-8
*includes up-to-date guidance on assessment processes in the Early Years;
*includes a new section with key knowledge on well known theories of child development.

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Publisher
Learning Matters
Year
2022
ISBN
9781529794472
Edition
5
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Early Childhood Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. The Author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Section 1 Early childhood context and policy
  11. 1 Children and childhood: a historical perspective
  12. 2 The current policy context of early years
  13. Section 2 Children’s development
  14. 3 Holistic development
  15. 4 Children’s development
  16. 5 Development in the early years foundation stage
  17. 6 Factors affecting children’s learning and development
  18. Section 3 Applying child development in practice
  19. 7 Supporting children’s learning and development
  20. 8 Observing and assessing children’s learning and development
  21. Section 4 Enhancing practice and understanding
  22. 9 Reflecting on children’s learning and development
  23. 10 Starting from the child: matching provision to children’s development and learning needs
  24. 11 Thinking, questioning and challenging: a critical approach to the early years
  25. Appendix 20 Learning theorists every education students needs to know
  26. Index