An ABC of Early Childhood Education
An ABC of Early Childhood Education
Editor: Smidt, Sandra
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
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$155.00
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ISBN: 978-1-13-801977-5
Category: Social Sciences - Education
Image Count:
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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
