Childhood Practice

A reflective and evidence-based approach

Mike Carroll, Mary Wingrave

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781529618556
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Early Childhood Education

This comprehensive guide to the core areas of early learning and childcare is designed to equip students to synthesise theory, research and practice to become reflective, evidence-based practitioners. Featuring a diverse and experienced team of authors, this essential book covers policy, theories of childhood, professional development and urgent issues impacting the sector today such as diversity and inclusion, being trauma-aware and children's rights.

Each chapter includes case studies, key ideas, views from practice, questions and more helping to bring topics to life, making this a rich resource that will support your studies. Dr Mike Carroll is a retired Senior Lecturer currently working as an Associate Tutor in Education at the University of Glasgow, Education Consultant and the co-author of Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education (2018). Mary Wingrave, is a Senior Associate Tutor and was formerly a Senior Lecture in Education at the University of Glasgow

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Table List
• Selected acronyms
• About the editors
• About the contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Policy and legislative context of non-compulsory care and education (NCE) in the UK
• 1 Legislative and policy frameworks: practice and implementation
• 2 Safeguarding and protecting children: from policy to practice
• 3 Diversity, equity and inclusion in early years
• 4 Children’s rights and the UNCRC
• Part II Contexts of childhood
• 5 Theories of child development
• 6 Contemporary perspectives of children and childhood
• 7 Personal, social and emotional development
• 8 Attachment-focused and trauma-aware early Childhood Practice
• Part III Early learning
• 9 Creating learning environments
• 10 Early language and literacy development
• 11 Early mathematical development
• 12 Digital learning in early childhood
• Part IV Perspectives on play
• 13 Playful pedagogy
• 14 Space to play
• 15 Outdoor learning
• Part V Developing the non-compulsory care and education workforce
• 16 Professionalisation of the non-compulsory sector in the UK
• 17 Professional learning and the reflexive practitioner
• 18 Professional inquiry
• 19 Evaluation in childcare settings
• Part VI The wider context of non-compulsory care and education
• 20 Leadership and management in Childhood Practice
• 21 Working in partnership
• 22 International perspectives on childcare provision and practice
• References
• Index