This fully revised edition of Early Years Practice: Getting It Right from the Start integrates theory and practice and expands on the topics of early childhood practice as located within the context of international curriculum frameworks including Aistear, the Irish framework.

This is a clear, comprehensive, systematic and practical guide to achieving Early Years Teacher Status and meeting the EYT Standards and requirements.

This must-have text bears in mind the various pathways to achieve EYTS and includes leadership activities to carry out within the role, making it an ideal resource for trainees to take them through their course straight into practice.

These essays examine alternatives to prevailing models of character education. Covering both stories in the classroom and controversial issues in education and care ethics, it examines how moral education might be infused into the curriculum and calls for greater co-operation across fields.

This ground-breaking book describes the spectrum of methods used by researchers to approach, access, understand and interpret infant voices. Researchers, children, teachers and parents explore the ethical considerations and dilemmas that arise along the way.

A key text to understanding effective leadership, this book explores leadership practices that can make a positive difference to early years provision and improve outcomes for both children and families.

This exciting new edition supports early years practitioners with step-by-step guidance and explanation of the role of assessment in the revised EYFS and now includes coverage of The Baseline Assessment.

Emotional literacy has been placed at the heart of good practice and this book provides clear guidance and lots of practical strategies for how to implement this ethos in your setting.

Movement-play, encourages physical activity in a child-led manner for the benefit of children's health, learning and wellbeing. This book looks at the theory behind the importance of movement and how 'movement-play' works within settings along with practical advice on its implementation.

A practical guide that helps Early Years practitioners to engage fathers in their child's wellbeing. It provides practitioners with: strategies for recruiting, engaging and retaining fathers; evaluation techniques to develop work with fathers over time; evidence on father involvement; and, policy frameworks and their impact on practice.

Whether working in children's centres, outreach and dual-focused services, preschools, kindergartens or schools this book helps readers develop the skills and strategies to work alongside parents whatever their role.

By advocating the need for practitioners to be reflective when teaching the 0-7 age range, this book presents a gentle method of developing literacy. Now featuring age-appropriate activities, more case studies and examples, and further reading suggestions, this is a must-read book when helping children to thrive.

Drawing upon the 'Reggio approach' amongst others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services.

This resource for beginning teachers of young children provides practical, sensitive, and diverse advice on getting children settled, mealtimes, toileting, and beginning and ending of sessions.

This book guides you through the process of creating a garden, however small, for young children. It looks at the impact a garden area can have on children's overall development and the benefits of using natural materials as learning tools.

This is a must-read book for all students studying early childhood at a range of levels and practitioners who are looking to deepen their understanding of play and playful practices.

The most important consideration in early education is the way in which young children learn. Their transferable skills of communication, collaboration and investigation can underpin various aspects of learning. This book focuses on these elements in a group of pre-schools in an area of Northern Italy.

This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children and young people's everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it provides theoretical frameworks and case studies to critically examine assumptions in the field and explore emerging perspectives.

This collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children's creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination together with informed theoretical critiques of current educational practice.