Description
Book SynopsisThis bestselling textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of teaching and learning in early years and primary education. If you are training to work in schools or other educational settings, the book offers a wide range of practical and straightforward guidance, covering essential topics such as safeguarding; attachments and relationships; assessment; the indoor and outdoor environment; new technologies; behaviour management; and well-being.
Thoroughly updated throughout and retaining its lively and engaging style, this new fifth edition extends your knowledge and understanding of working and playing effectively with young children. Enlivened by thought-provoking cameos and reflective questions, the book gives you the confidence to reflect upon, challenge and enhance your own pedagogies. Key features include:
â Real life cameos drawn from schools and settings
â Questions to promote thinking included in each chapter
â Suggested fu
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Photographs
List of Tables
Notes on the editors and contributors
Introduction
Jane Payler, Jan Georgeson and Janet Moyles
PART 1: The context of education from birth to 11
1. Policy context and current issues
Karen Mcinnes and Pat Black
2. Attachments and relationships
Karen Morris
3. Learning about the teacher’s role in safeguarding
Pia Parry
PART 2: Planning for Learning – pedagogy and place
4. Planning for Learning – children and teachers
Janet Moyles
5. Assessment for Learning
Jo Basford and Ruth Dann
6. Organising the environment indoors and out
Jane Waters
7. Classroom behaviour management
Theodora Papatheodorou
8. Moving in, up and out: successful transitions
Aline Wendy Dunlop
PART 3: Ways of Learning
9. Developing young children as self-regulating learners
David Whitebread and Penny Coltman
10. From astronaut to problem solving: tracing children’s symbolic meanings
Maulfry Worthington
11. Encouraging enquiry: exploring the world around us
Helen Clarke and Karen Phethean
12. New technologies, new ways of learning
Rachael Levy and Nathalia Kucirkova
13. The relationship between physical development and learning i the early years and primary classrooms
Carrie Weston and Elizabeth Marsden
14. The power of story
Liz Chamberlain and Jacqueline Harrett
PART 4: Influences on Children’s Learning
15. Social class and culture: building bridges
Jane Payler and Jan Georgeson
16. Empowering learners from 3-11 through language diversity and bilingualism
Jean Conteh
17. Inclusion, well-being and safeguarding of children
Anita Soni
PART 5: Working in partnership
18. Accessing children’s voices and experiences
Victoria Cooper and Mary Kellett
19. Reaching out: fostering partnership with parents
Mary Scanlan
20. Planning Educational Visits
Bev Keen
21. Education of children with long-term health issues
Alison Closs and Ann Burnett
22. Exploring leadership in the classroom
Carrie Cable
23. Beginning to work with other agencies
Gary Walker
Endpiece
Jane Payler, Jan Georgeson and Janet Moyles
