Extending professional practice in the early years. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Linda Miller, Rose Drury and Carrie Cable.
• Other Names: Miller, Linda, 1946-; Drury, Rose; Cable, Carrie; Open University.
• Contents: Introduction; PART ONE: LISTENING TO CHILDREN; Introduction; Ways of Seeing: Using the Mosaic Approach to Listen to Young Children's Perspectives - Alison Clark; Is My City or Community Child-Friendly? - Dora Giusti, Roger Hart and Selim Iltus; Horses in the Sandpit: Photography, Prolonged Involvement and 'Stepping back' as Strategies for Listening to Children's Voices - Alison Stephenson; Conducting Research with Young Children: Some Ethical Considerations - Rosie Flewitt; Promoting Young Children's Development: Implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - Martin Woodhead; PART TWO: DIVERSITY AND TRANSITIONS; Introduction - Rose Drury; Questioning Diversity - Jeanette Rhedding-Jones; Inclusive Practice for Children with Special Educational Needs - Christine Hickman and Kyffin Jones; Childcare Practitioners and the Process of Professionalization - Jan Peeters and Michel Vandenbroeck; Reflective Family-Centred Practices: Parents' Perspectives and Early Intervention - Alice Paige-Smith, Jonathan Rix and Anna Craft; The Challenges for Children Experiencing Rural Poverty in Wales - Siân Wyn Siencyn; 'Just Like Having a Best Friend': How Babies and Toddlers Construct Relationships with Their Key Workers in Nurseries - Liz Brooker; 'I Didn't Expect I Would Get Tons of Friends… More Each Day': Children's Experiences of Friendship during the Transition to School - Sally Peters; Postmodern and Post-Structuralist Perspectives on Early Childhood Education - Deborah Albon; PART THREE: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE; Introduction - Linda Miller; 'Improper' Children - Liz Jones, Rachel Holmes, Christina MacRae and Maggie MacLure; Digital Technologies at Home: the Experiences of Three and Four-Year-Olds in Scotland - Christine Stephen, Joanna McPake and Lydia Plowman; A Cultural-Historical Theory of Children's Development - Mariane Hedegaard; Through a Different Lens: Exploring Reggio Emilia in a Welsh Context - Trisha Maynard and Sarah Chicken; Pedagogy: a Holistic, Personal Approach to Work with Children and Young People Across Services - Pat Petrie, Janet Boddy, Claire Cameron, Ellen Heptinstall, Susan McQuail, Antonia Simon and Valerie Wigfall; PART FOUR: LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE; Introduction; Constructions of Professional Identity - Gill McGillivray; Leading and Managing in the Early Years - Mary E. Whalley; Building and Leading a Team - Jillian Rodd; Effective Leadership in the Early Years Sector: The ELEYS Study - Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Laura Manni; Negotiating the Moral Maze: Developing Ethical Literacy in Multi-Agency Settings - Judith Whitmarsh;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 372.1102; Early childhood education -- Great Britain; Teaching -- Practice -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473919228; 1473919223
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.