Description
Book SynopsisThis new and updated edition of Characteristics of Effective Early Learning focuses on how children learn which is just as important as what they learn. The book helps practitioners understand their key role in supporting childrenâs self-regulation skills and learning power through playing and exploring, active learning and thinking creatively and critically. It includes new chapters on affirmative parenting practices and the crucial role of adult communication partners in supporting childrenâs learning.
The book:
â Explains how emotional and cognitive self-regulation in the early years underpins lifelong learning
â Investigates how children engage in learning through playing and exploring and are motivated through active learning
â Explores how children become creative and critical thinkers, excited by their own learning power and able to review their own learning and thinking
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Table of Contents
1 How Young Children Learn: Introduction and Overview
Helen Moylett
2 The Importance of Self -Regulation for learning from birth
David Whitebread
3 Playing and Exploring
Sue Rogers and Shabana Roscoe
4 Active Learning
Nancy Stewart
5 Thinking Creatively and Critically
Di Chilvers
6 Observing, Assessing and Planning for How Young Children Are Learning
Judith Dancer and Helen Moylett
7 Interacting and Talking for Learning and Thinking
Nancy Stewart and Helen Moylett
8 Affirmative Parenting Practices: Lessons from the High Achieving White Working Class Boys (HAWWC) Project
Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram
9 Early Years Settings as Life-long Learning Communities
Clare Crowther
10 Building for the Future – building on the early years
Elaine Bennett and Kim Porter
