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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the professional competence of early childhood mathematics teachers. It considers professional knowledge, motivational-affective dispositions, skills and performance in early childhood mathematics and outlines future fields of research in this area.The book argues that it is essential for early childhood teachers to prepare a high-quality learning environment and that mathematical competence is highly relevant for children's individual development. Bringing together research from mathematics education, educational science and psychology, it integrates international perspectives and considers the contextual factors that affect the development of children's mathematical competence within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings. The book uses a model to describe professional teacher competence that considers the dispositions of early childhood teachers, situation-specific skills of early childhood teachers anTable of Contents Introduction Simone Dunekacke, Aljoscha Jegodtka, Thomas Koinzer, Katja Eilerts & Lars Jenßen Part 1 - Dispositions Voices of competence: What I learned from my Early Education students by Herbert P. Ginsburg Preschool teachers’ mathematical pedagogical content knowledge and self-reported classroom activities by Joke Torbeyns, Febe Demedts and Fien Depaepe Age-appropriate performance expectations and learning objectives of early childhood teachers in the field of mathematics: a cross-country comparison of Austria and Switzerland by Karoline Rettenbacher, Lars Eichen, Manfred Pfiffner & Catherine Walter-Laager How preservice teacher training changes prospective ECEC teachers’ emotions about mathematics by Oliver Thiel A math-avoidant profession? Review of the current research about early childhood teachers' mathematics anxiety and empirical evidence by Lars Jenßen Kindergarten educators’ affective-motivational dispositions: examining enthusiasm for fostering mathematics in kindergarten by Franziska Vogt, Miriam Leuchter, Simone Dunekacke, Aiso Heinze, Anke Lindmeier, Susanne Kuratli Geeler, Anuschka Meier, Selma Seemann, Andrea Wullschleger & Elisabeth Moser Opitz Part 2 - Situation-Specific Skills Early mathematics education – What do pre-service teachers learn? by Simone Dunekacke & Sigrid Blömeke Supporting Preservice Early Childhood Educators to Identify Mathematical Activities in the Actions of Preverbal Young Children by Audrey Cooke & Jenny Jay Part 3 - Performance Early childhood teachers‘ selection of subskills-related activities and instructional approaches to foster children’s early number skills by Lara Pohle, Lars Jenßen & Katja Eilerts Longitudinal Evaluation of a Scale-up Model for Professional Development in Early Mathematics by Julie Sarama, Douglas H. Clements & Shannon Stark Guss Preschool Teachers’ Ways of Promoting Mathematical Learning in Picture Book Reading by Camilla Björklund & Hanna Palmér The relative frequency of mathematical learning opportunities in the morning circle in relation to the development of children’s mathematical competencies by Aljoscha Jegodtka, Georg Hosoya, Markus Szczesny, Lars Jenßen, Corinna Schmude Outlook: Context and its consequences—a neglected factor in research on early-childhood teachers’ professional skills? by Esther Brunner

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploring Challenging Picturebooks in Education

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Book SynopsisWhat should children and students read? This volume explores challenging picturebooks as learning materials in early childhood education, primary and secondary school, and even universities. It addresses a wide range of thematic, cognitive, and aesthetic challenges and educational affordances of picturebooks in various languages and from different countries. Written by leading and emerging scholars in the field of picturebook studies and literacy research, the book discusses the impact of challenging picturebooks in a comprehensive manner and combines theoretical considerations, picturebook analyses, and empirical studies with children and students. It introduces stimulating picturebooks from all continents and how they are used or may be used in educational settings and contexts. The chapters touch on subjects like reading promotion, second-language acquisition, art education, interdisciplinary learning, empathy development, minority issues, and intercultural competence. MorTrade Review"[The] case studies illuminate professional practice and there are plenty of applicable ideas for how to promote empathy and to use challenging picture books in ways that engage and hold potential for reframing how books and reading might be considered by non traditional readers. An engaging book that offers potential for developing professional practice." - Jake Hope, The School Librarian "On the wbole, Exploring Challenging Picture-books in Education offers an expansive, outward-looking evaluation of this exciting medium in varying contexts. Altbough many of us who study and teach children's literature have long celebrated the joy of reading picturebooks with our students, the triumph of this volume is its dedication to empirical research and to showing, in concrete terms, how picturebooks work to change readers' worldviews." - Lauren Rizzuto, Independent scholar, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Challenging Picturebooks in EducationÅse Marie Ommundsen, Gunnar Haaland, and Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerPart I Theoretical Perspectives on Challenging Picturebooks in Education1 Cognitive Challenges of Challenging PicturebooksBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer2 Challenging Picturebooks and Literacy StudiesJennifer Farrar, Evelyn Arizpe, and Julie McAdamPart II Challenging Picturebooks in Early Childhood and Primary Education3 Interpreting and Mediating a Wordless Picturebook in Pre-primary Early English Language LearningSandie Mourão4 Picturebooks and Aesthetic Literacy in Early Childhood EducationMarnie Campagnaro5 Cognitively Challenging Picturebooks and the Pleasures of Reading: Explorative Learning from Picturebooks in the ClassroomÅse Marie Ommundsen6 Picturebooks that Challenge the Young English Language LearnerJanice Bland7 Gender Diversity in Picturebooks: Challenges of a Taboo Topic in Portuguese SchoolsEmanuel Madalena and Ana Margarida RamosPart IIIChallenging Picturebooks in Secondary and Tertiary Education8 Intercultural Learning through Peter Sís’ The Wall: Teenagers Reading a Challenging PicturebookSissil Lea Heggernes9 Challenging Picturebooks in the School Library: An Untapped Resource?Åse Kristine Tveit10 Exploring a Challenging Picturebook Gospel in the ClassroomGunnar Haaland, Eivind Karlsson, Anne Kristine Øgreid, and Åse Marie Ommundsen11 The Challenge of Creativity: Using Picturebook Sequencing for Creative WritingBjörn Sundmark and Cecilia Olsson JersPart IVGlobal Perspectives Pertaining to Challenging Picturebooks in Education12 Crossing Boundaries of Age, Culture, and Time with Challenging PicturebooksSandra L. Beckett13 Confronting the Trauma of the Child Evacuee: Picturebooks as Entrances to Visual LiteracyMia Österlund14 Challenging the Status Quo with Picturebook and App: A Canadian Case Study Margaret Mackey15 Publishing Challenging PicturebooksLaura LittleIndex

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Taylor & Francis Ltd The School Bereavement Toolkit

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Book SynopsisPractical and accessible, this guidebook is designed to help staff in schools support bereaved children in their care. Providing information and guidance on practical issues around bereavement and indicating some of the issues that might require extra thought or assistance, this book makes accessing relevant information as easy and quick as possible.When busy school staff are faced with a bereaved child, the prospect can be daunting. What do I say? What can I do? Will I make it worse? Have I got time to do this? This book is a toolbox to give staff confidence in helping bereaved young people. Information is easily accessed and simple to use, giving staff quick and practical help. There are sections on what will help and what will not; also included are photocopiable worksheets and tools to aid children and young people to explore their grief, as well as information on how school communities can share the news and manage an initial response.With age-appropriate guidanceTable of ContentsIntroduction Basic procedures on hearing the news and in the longer term How a bereaved child might be feeling Considerations when talking to a bereaved child Interventions in the classroom Answering difficult questions Helping classmates support their grieving friend When a child in the class dies When a bereavement needs more support Support for the carers Helpful organisations References and bibliography

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook of Research on Waldorf Education

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Waldorf Education: An all-round, balanced approach to education that is equally concerned with intellectual-cognitive and artistic-creative learning. A practice- and experience-based pedagogy. Non-selective and open to all children and young people; offering a stress-free, secure learning environment across 12 grades; embedded in a community of students, teachers, and parents. An alternative education that has been successfully practiced for over a century. The first Waldorf School was founded in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919. Today, Waldorf Education is practiced in all countries and cultures around the world: in over 1,000 schools, more than 2,000 kindergartens, and numerous centers for special needs education. This makes Waldorf Education the most prevalent alternative approach to teaching. And yet, despite the success and (now empirically validated) recognition that Waldorf schools enjoy, the theory underlying them remains controversial. Within the academic debate, Waldorf

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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Practical Resource for Supporting Childrens

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook - Something Has Happened: A Storybook. This programme of activities, created to be used alongside the storybook, Something Has Happened, has been designed to help children develop their own internal measure of safety, and teaches them how to ask for help if they feel unsafe.The sessions and activities in this book directly correlate to episodes in the storybook Something Has Happened, covering the fundamental aspects of safeguarding as well as elements of the Protective Behaviours (PB) process. Taking adults and children through a wide range of discussion points and activities, all underpinned by clear guidance, it acts as a starting point to help children understand that being safe from harm is the most important right they have and that the trusted adults around them will always take action to believe and protect them.Key features of this resource incTrade Review"Something Has Happened is a valuable and practical safeguarding resource for all professionals who work with children. It covers key themes about feeling and being safe in a detailed, yet engaging, way. The reading book can be used as a standalone resource with clear language and charming illustration, but when combined with the lesson plans and resources it becomes an even more powerful tool to empower children to recognise their own feelings of safety or otherwise and to act upon those feelings appropriately to safeguard themselves.Staff are clearly guided through the lesson plans, with suggestions of appropriate language to use to draw out the main protective behaviours themes and useful photocopiable resources are provided. The fact that we never learn what Joe's "worry" is helps to make the resource universal - it can be used in the curriculum to support children with common worries, through to things that require an "Early Help" approach with other agencies, through to serious disclosures of abuse and neglect. Giving children the language and permission to talk about their worries in this way is both powerful and positive."Jo Perrin, Lead Safeguarding Adviser, Services For EducationTable of ContentsFeeling Safe My Safety Scale Let’s Help Joe My Network Don’t Give Up Feeling Safer Body Outline Feelings Alphabet My Safety Scale Safety Scale Cards Safety Scale Situations I Feel Safe When…. Top 10 Activities Leaf Template Network Template Network Bookmark Network Invitation Persistence Cards Being A Helpful Friend My Safe Safe We all have the right to feel safe poster Breathing, Relaxation and Waking up!

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bubble Schools and the Long Road from Lockdown

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Book SynopsisThis sequel to Breslin's critically acclaimed Lessons from Lockdown explores how school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils have navigated their way through and from lockdown. This is the story of doing' schooling against the topsy-turvy backdrop of a pandemic that has caused us all to reflect not just on the purpose and substance of education but also the world that schools might, in the future, need to prepare children and young people for. Drawing on the voices of more than a hundred pupils, parents and professionals, it captures the range of experiences as teachers and students grappled with new ways of working, policy chaos and the complexity of schooling and teaching in such a landscape.Bubble Schools is a must-read for all concerned about the shape that our public education systems take as we begin to move forward from a system-shock that has revealed both the strengths and the weaknesses of education policy, system design and long-established classroomTrade ReviewBubble Schools is a fascinating, thought provoking historical document which should be read by anyone concerned with supporting the "COVID generation" and addressing the inequities in our society - which the pandemic has thrown into sharp relief - in the months and years to come.Isobel Bryce, Education Consultant and Former Headteacher, Saltash Community School, UKI applaud Tony Breslin’s new work, Bubble Schools and the Long Road from Lockdown, a vivid description of the next stage in the crisis. The book will help educators and beyond to understand the multidimensional repercussions of the pandemic at all levels. Lynda Leavitt, Professor, Educational Leadership, Director, Center for Innovation and Insight, College of Education and Human Services, Lindenwood University, USAA compelling narrative and analysis that deserves to be read and actioned. Michael McGarvey, Managing Director, The Key for School Leaders, UKBreslin's expertise in the field of education is well established, his research is simultaneously nuanced and insightful, and his writing accomplishes the rare feat of being both accessible and informative.J. Michael Ryan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University, KazakhstanTony Breslin is becoming a prolific author and I am sure that his books will be of great benefit to teachers, parents and the wider community.Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, Former Secretary of State for Education, UK This is a very important book. Easy to read and more likely to provide catharsis than to re-traumatise those who kept education going almost in spite of the DfE. It is a valiant effort to secure “a positive legacy from an awful episode”. I can’t wait for volume three.John Cosgrove, Schools WeekTable of Contents1. The optimism of September: And the subsequently broken promise of normality. 2. After the grading crisis: What the class of 2020 did next, and what this might mean for Higher Education after lockdown. 3. It all ends in tiers: The different experiences of different learners in different settings. 4. Crisis at Christmas: Schools and the second surge. 5. Better connected?: Home-learning second time around. 6. ‘Examining’ the class of 2021: Exploding the myths of ‘teacher bias’ and ‘grade inflation’. 7. Beyond lockdown: Building curricula for catch-up, recovery and much more. 8. Leadership and governance in a hybrid world: The long road to genuinely blended provision. 9. Personalising learning for all: Utilising E-tech and bringing SEND strategies into the mainstream. 10. Autumn’s return: A testing time (and term) for all. Next Steps: Leading schools out of lockdown. References. Index.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the story book, The Lonely Little Cactus: A Story About Friendship, Coping, and Belonging. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Building Conceptual PlayWorlds for Wellbeing: The Lonely Little Cactus Story Book and Accompanying Resource Book.This vital resource uses the evidence-driven Conceptual PlayWorlds model of intentional teaching developed by Professor Marilyn Fleer to provide supporting classroom or home-based activities to help children aged between four and eight solve challenges and learn wellbeing concepts through play.Intended for use with the accompanying picture story book, The Lonely Little Cactus, a tale about a cactus that feels lonely living in the desert, this guide offers imagery-rich scenarios, including 20 unique activities, so children have an opportunity to experientially grasp wellbeing concepts that can be otherwise difficult to explain. Table of Contents1. PlayWorlds for wellbeing 2. An urgent message from Eagle 3. Little Cactus’ quest in Friendship Land 4. The Little Cactus finds out how to organise a playdate 5. Wise mermaid’s magic mirror 6. Helping Bat be included 7. From feeling unhappy to being a Superstar Snake 8. Anonymous acts of kindness 9. Grand opening of the Little Cactus movie 10. Feeling safe and designing a security system for the Deer Family 11. Message in a bottle 12. Working together for more than just treasure 13. Sneezing and wheezing: staying connected 14. Relaxing in the snow 15. The twinkle party 16. An acorn feast for Deer 17. Helping Eagle fly again 18. Breathing buddies 19. Celebration of strengths 20. A new friend 21. Compliments unlocked

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