Description
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- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword – The Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020
- Introduction
- Using this book
- Within each chapter
- At the end of each chapter
- Online
- A summary of the book
- Part one Becoming a reflective professional
- Chapter 1 Identity Who are we and what do we stand for?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AS PRACTITIONERS
- 1.1 Becoming an early years practitioner
- 1.2 Values informing early years practice
- 1.3 Practitioner identities
- 2 KNOWING BABIES AND YOUNG CHILDREN
- 2.1 How babies and young children experience early years education
- 2.2 Understanding children’s needs
- 2.3 Examining our perceptions of young children
- 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH LIFE
- 3.1 Developing a career in Early Childhood Education and Care
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 2 Learning How can we understand learner development?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 LEARNING PROCESSES
- 1.1 Behaviourism
- 1.2 Constructivism
- 1.3 Cognition
- 1.4 Socio-cultural models learning
- 2 NATURE, NURTURE AND AGENCY
- 2.1 The developing brain
- 2.2 Health, physical development and disability
- 3 NURTURE, NATURE AND AGENCY
- 3.1 Family and community
- 3.2 Peer relationships
- 3.3 Educational environments
- 3.4 The media and new technologies
- 3.5 Personality, self-esteem and learner identity
- 4 TAKING STOCK OF LEARNING
- 4.1 Metaphors for learning
- 4.2 The characteristics of effective learning
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 3 Reflection How can we develop the quality of our practice?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 DILEMMAS, REFLECTION, EFFECTIVENESS AND QUALITY
- 1.1 Dilemmas and challenges in early years provision
- 1.2 Reflection and evidence-informed practice
- 1.3 Standards for effectiveness within early years provision and career development
- 2 THE MEANING OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
- 2.1 Aims and consequences
- 2.2 Reflection as a cyclical process
- 2.3 Gathering and evaluating evidence
- 2.4 Attitudes towards practice
- 2.5 Practitioner judgement
- 2.6 Learning with colleagues
- 2.7 Reflective teaching as creative mediation
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 4 Principles What are the foundations of effective teaching and learning?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 EVIDENCE-INFORMED PRINCIPLES
- 2 TLRP’S TEN PRINCIPLES
- 2.1 Education for life
- 2.2 Valued knowledge
- 2.3 Prior experience
- 2.4 Scaffolding understanding
- 2.5 Assessment for learning
- 2.6 Active engagement
- 2.7 Social relationships
- 2.8 Informal learning
- 2.9 Teacher learning
- 2.10 Policy frameworks
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Part two Creating conditions for learning
- Chapter 5 Contexts What is, and what might be?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 SOCIAL CONTEXT
- 1.1 Ideology
- 1.2 Culture
- 1.3 Opportunity
- 1.4 Accountability
- 2 PEOPLE AND AGENCY
- 2.1 Practitioners
- 2.2 Babies and children
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 6 Relationships How are we getting on together?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 RELATIONSHIPS IN SETTINGS
- 1.1 Practitioner–child relationships
- 1.2 Staff teams and relationships
- 1.3 Relationships with families
- 1.4 Multi-agency working
- 2. RELATIONSHIPS FOR LEARNING
- 2.1 Child–peer interactions and learning
- 2.2 Child–practitioner interactions and learning
- 3. ENHANCING THE SETTING CLIMATE
- 3.1 Climate and emotional security
- 3.2 Supporting children’s confidence as learners
- 3.3 Developing an inclusive setting
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 7 Engagement How are we managing behaviour?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR
- 1.1 Well-being and children’s behaviour
- 1.2 Involvement and children’s behaviour
- 1.3 Expectations and encouragement
- 2 BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT: PRACTITIONER EXPERIENCE
- 2.1 Self-presentation
- 2.2 Practitioner characteristics and beliefs
- 2.3 Management skills
- 3 BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT: PRACTICAL GUIDANCE
- 3.1 Rules
- 3.2 Children who present as a cause for concern
- 3.3 Practical approaches to managing undesirable behaviours
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 8 Spaces How are we creating environments for learning?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 ENVIRONMENTS FOR LEARNING
- 1.1 Spaces for children?
- 1.2 Enabling environments
- 1.3 Children’s voice and democratic spaces
- 2 ORGANIZING SPACES FOR LEARNING
- 2.1 Use of resource, space and time
- 2.2 Outdoor spaces
- 2.3 ‘Positive risk-taking’ and the limitations of ‘staying safe’
- 2.4 Learning spaces for children under three years
- 3 USING TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY YEARS
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Part three Teaching for learning
- Chapter 9 Curriculum What is taught in the early years?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THINKING ABOUT THE CURRICULUM
- 1.1 The official curriculum and its development in the UK
- 1.2 The hidden curriculum
- 1.3 The experienced curriculum
- 1.4 The global curriculum
- 1.5 Principles for curriculum provision
- 2 YOUNG CHILDREN’S LEARNING: DEVELOPMENT AND THE CURRICULUM
- 2.1 Development
- 2.2 Knowledge
- 2.3 Concepts
- 2.4 Skills
- 2.5 Attitudes
- 3 DELIVERING A CURRICULUM IN PRACTICE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 10 Planning How are we implementing the curriculum?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 PLANNING A PLAY-BASED APPROACH
- 1.1 Why plan?
- 1.2 What are we planning?
- 1.3 Play
- 2. THE PLANNING PROCESS
- 2.1 Long-term planning
- 2.2 Medium-term planning
- 2.3 Short-term planning
- 2.4 Planning a provocation
- 2.5 Planning in the moment
- 3 EVALUATING PROVISION
- 3.1 Identifying learning
- 3.2 Observation
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 11 Pedagogy How can we develop effective strategies?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 DEFINING PEDAGOGY
- 2 ENACTING THE ART, CRAFT AND SCIENCE OF PEDAGOGY
- 2.1 Art, craft and science in action
- 2.2 Analysing pedagogy
- 3 PEDAGOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
- 3.1 The development of pedagogic principles
- 3.2 Perspectives
- 4 ENACTING LEARNER DEVELOPMENT
- 4.1 Building from prior learning
- 4.2 Analysing pedagogy
- 5 PEDAGOGIC REPERTOIRE
- 5.1 Scaffolding
- 5.2 Modelling
- 5.3 Communicating
- 6 ENACTING A SERIES OF LESSONS
- 6.1 The art, craft and science of pedagogy over time
- 6.2 Analysing pedagogy
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 12 Communication How does language support learning?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- 2 LANGUAGE AND EARLY YEARS PRACTICE
- 2.1 Communicating with emergent language users
- 2.2 Listening and responding to children
- 2.3 Scaffolding and modelling language
- 3 CREATING AN APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION AND EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- 3.1 Birth to three years
- 3.2 Three to five years
- 3.3 Five to seven years
- 3.4 Non-verbal communication
- 4 LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
- 4.1 Communication
- 4.2 Learning through talk: Sustained shared thinking and early years practice
- 4.3 Learning through talk: Listening, questioning and responding
- 4.4 Exploring dialogue
- 5 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND WIDER CONSIDERATIONS
- 5.1 The development of phonological awareness
- 5.2 Language skills and fluent reading
- 5.3 Language and role-play
- 5.4 The bilingual learner
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 13 Assessment How can assessment enhance learning?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 ASSESSMENT, LEARNING AND TEACHING
- 1.1 Formative Assessment and Responsive Teaching
- 1.2 ‘Growth Mindset’ and assessment
- 1.3 Key ideas
- 2 STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING LEARNING THROUGH ASSESSMENT
- 2.1 Involving children in discussions and decision-making
- 2.2 Evaluating dispositions to learn
- 2.3 Metacognition: encouraging children to reflect upon their learning and progress
- 3 FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN ASSESSMENT
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Part four Reflecting on consequences
- Chapter 14 Outcomes How do we capture learning achievements?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 PERSPECTIVES ON ASSESSMENT
- 1.1 Criterion-referenced summative assessment
- 1.2 Formative approaches to assessment
- 2 PURPOSE AND VALUES OF ASSESSMENT
- 2.1 Purpose and value of assessment for government, local authorities, schools and settings
- 2.2 Purpose and value of assessment for practitioners
- 2.3 Purpose and value of assessment for families
- 2.4 Purpose and value of assessment for the child
- 3 ASSESSMENT IN ACTION
- 3.1 Seeing
- 3.2 Understanding
- 3.3 Using and sharing
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 15 Inclusion How are we enabling learning opportunities?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 DIMENSIONS OF DIFFERENCE
- 1.1 Social class
- 1.2 Ethnicity
- 1.3 Gender
- 1.4 Sexuality and gender
- 1.5 Age
- 1.6 Physical appearance
- 1.7 Ability
- 1.8 What needs?
- 2 PRACTICES AND PROCESSES
- 2.1 Principles of inclusive pedagogy
- 2.2 Responding to learner diversity
- 2.3 Putting inclusive principles into practice
- 3 CONSEQUENCES
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Part five Deepening understanding
- Chapter 16 Expertise Conceptual tools for career-long fascination?
- INTRODUCTION
- I.1 Deepening expertise
- I.2 A framework of concepts and expert questions
- EDUCATIONAL AIMS
- Society’s goals
- Elements of learning
- SOCIAL CONTEXTS
- Community context
- Setting and sector context
- PROCESSES
- Processes for children’s social needs: a case study
- Processes for children’s emotional needs
- Processes for children’s cognitive needs
- LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Outcomes for continuing improvements in learning
- Outcomes for the life-course
- CONCLUSION
- KEY READINGS
- Chapter 17 Professionalism How does reflective teaching contribute to society?
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 PROFESSIONALISM AND SOCIETY
- 1.1 Professionalism in the ECEC sector: What is a profession?
- 1.2 Challenges associated with recognizing ECEC as a profession
- 1.3 Moving towards professionalization
- 1.4 Tensions between traditional and current views of early childhood education and care
- 1.5 Professionality: A model of restricted and extended professionalism
- 1.6 E-Professionalism
- 2 EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
- 2.1 The role of early childhood education and care in society
- 2.2 Economic benefits of investing in early childhood education and care
- 2.3 Intergenerational benefits
- 2.4 A wealth-generating, adaptable future workforce
- 2.5 Cultural benefits
- 2.6 The child in society
- 2.7 Parenting
- 2.8 Cultural production and reproduction
- 2.9 ECEC and social justice
- CONCLUSION
- From vision to reality: What can realistically be achieved by ECEC?
- KEY READINGS
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
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