Early Childhood Education: Books

For Introduction to Early Childhood Education courses. Covers ages 0-8. The fourth edition of this best-selling text has been thoroughly updated to ensure that future teachers of young children encounter the most current ideas about how children learn, how best to teach them, and how to effectively include their families and their communities in their education. This revision offers a new chapter on Standards, a new diversity feature in each chapter as well as throughout the text, and increased coverage of Vygotsky's theories and suggestions for implementing them in today's classrooms. Plus, it again provides Morrison's trademark trio--comprehensive coverage, inviting format, and appealing writing. A low cost, paperback alternative to the full edition.

Challenges long-established beliefs about early childhood education. This book offers readers the opportunity to think about the aspects of their profession that are fundamental to providing effective and equitable educational opportunities for young children in the 21st century. It is for students in early childhood studies programmes.

Gives an overview of relevant contemporary social theories, including poststructuralism, cultural studies, postcolonialism, feminist perspectives and queer theory. This book covers a number of issues impacting on children's lives, including globalization, new racisms, immigration, refugees, homophobia, heterosexism and constructions of childhood.