Have you ever wondered what the Steiner approach is all about, where it comes from and how it can be used to benefit the young children in your setting?

Provides support for students studying for the CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education qualification. This work features an index to help students find just what they're looking for. It also includes case studies, activities and photos that help students to apply their learning, develop professional skills, and reflect on their practice.

This title covers the seven units of CACHE's Foundation in Caring for Children award thoroughly and follows the unit order to guide students easily through the award. The pages are designed in self-contained double-page spreads which follow the same recognizable format.

In response to growing pressure on early years practitioners to adopt a 'tick-box' approach to recording children's progress, Celebrating Children's Learning sets out a bold vision for assessment in the early years. Drawing upon an inspiring collaboration between London nursery schools, it explores the role of observation in early years settings.

The early years sector is going through a period of unprecedented change. This has resulted in significant challenges for the early years workforce and it is crucial that settings, teams, leaders and individual practitioners respond to these if they wish to continue to provide the best care and education for young children.

The early years sector is going through a period of unprecedented change. This has resulted in significant challenges for the early years workforce and it is crucial that settings, teams, leaders and individual practitioners respond to these if they wish to continue to provide the best care and education for young children.

Based on the research of the Bristol Language Development Scales (BLADES), Chataway is a programme designed to help children develop speaking skills. Covering this program, this book is useful for teachers and assistants in settings from Foundation Stage and Key Stages 1 & 2, to pupils with special needs at Key Stage 3 and in Special Schools.

Written from a more practical angle than many existing childcare textbooks, Jennie Lindon's student text uses scenarios to describe practice in realistic fictional settings drawn from the author's extensive experience.

This practical text supports early years students and practitioners to build confidence in planning for learning across all stages of the EYFS and in the many different contexts in which it is delivered.

Provides an illustrated quick-reference guide to child development from 0-16 years written specifically for Early Years students and practitioners.

This highly topical book presents recent, significant research from eight nations where childcare markets are the norm.

This book offers an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. It explores childhood from within the family, to the global perspective, and the child's own perspective. It enables readers to begin to understand childhood in relation to society and to develop the skills to look at childhood from a critical standpoint.

This book provides an account of research in action and debate in progress in a selection of areas of childhood social development where significant progress is underway.

This reader takes debates about children's services forward by drawing on ideas based in social pedagogy and arguing that the concept of 'space' is crucial to relationships and practices with children and young people. It will stimulate students to question and rethink, and practitioners to innovate and challenge mainstream thinking.

This book uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

A key text exploring children's rights, highlighting the importance of a child's voice and presenting ideas and strategies to encourage children's participation in their education.

Helping readers to understand what good practice entails, this book provides clear guidance on the rights of young people today. Covering education, social care and welfare, and health this book allows readers to put policy into practice in their setting.

A study of the debate over methods of primary education and of the conflict between child-centred and more traditional-education; concern about the role of the teacher; and, the renewed challenge of 'play' as a tool of education.

Designed with busy teachers in mind, the 'Classroom Gems' series draws together an extensive selection of practical, tried-&-tested, off-the-shelf ideas, games & activities, guaranteed to transform any lesson or classroom in an instant.