An ABC of Early Childhood Education

Editor: Smidt, Sandra
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $155.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: Not Available
ISBN: 978-1-13-801977-5
Category: Social Sciences - Education
Image Count: 5
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This unique and engaging resource describes, critiques and analyses the significance of a wide range of contemporary and classic ideas about how young children learn.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • A
  • Abstract
  • Active learner, the child as
  • Agency
  • Apprentice, child as
  • Arts
  • Asking questions
  • Attention
  • B
  • Becoming a reader
  • Becoming a writer
  • Bilingualism/multilingualism
  • C
  • Cognitive/intellectual development
  • Collaborate/collaboration/collaborative/co-constructor
  • Common sense thinking
  • Competent babies
  • Complex or enriched environments
  • Concepts
  • Cooperative play
  • Creativity/child as creative thinker
  • Culture/cultural capital/cultural competence/cultural tools/cultural worlds
  • D
  • Dance
  • Decentre
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
  • Dialogic education
  • Divergent thinking
  • Documenting children's progress
  • Drawing
  • E
  • Ecological model
  • Egocentric
  • Egocentric speech
  • Emotional development
  • Expectations
  • Expert others
  • Exploratory play
  • Eye-pointing
  • F
  • Family
  • Fantasy play
  • Feelings and their impact
  • First-hand experience
  • Formats
  • G
  • Gender
  • Guided participation
  • H
  • Habitus
  • Higher Order Cognitive Processes
  • Human sense
  • Hundred Languages of Children
  • I
  • Identity
  • Imitation
  • In pretend mode
  • Inclusion/diversity
  • Inner speech
  • Interaction with others
  • Intersubjectivity
  • L
  • Language acquisition
  • M
  • Maintaining languages and culture
  • Mark-making
  • Meaning
  • Meaningful contexts
  • Mediation
  • Memory in action
  • Monologues
  • Multiple intelligences
  • N
  • Narrative
  • Neuroscience
  • O
  • Outdoor play
  • Ownership
  • P
  • Painting and drawing
  • Participation
  • Peer-teaching
  • Play and its role in early learning
  • Popular culture
  • Possible worlds
  • Prior experience
  • Problem posers
  • Purposeful
  • R
  • Reciprocal teaching
  • Relationship, building a culture of
  • Representation and re-representation
  • Role making and role playing
  • Rules, making and breaking them
  • S
  • Scaffolding learning
  • Schemas
  • Scientific concepts
  • Scripts
  • Semiotic
  • Significant moments
  • Signs/symbols
  • Standing a head taller
  • Sustained shared thinking
  • Symbolic representation
  • T
  • Theories of children
  • Transforming
  • Z
  • Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
  • Other texts mentioned in this book