Description
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this best selling book looks critically at the 2012 Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and draws attention to issues that underlie the EYFS and the implications for children from birth to five.
With its questions for reflection and discussion, further reading and useful websites, Early Years Foundations is essential and informative reading for students studying any early years or early childhood course, or working towards Early Years Teacher Status.
Among the many challenges facing early years professionals, there are continual dilemmas arising between perceptions of good practice, the practicalities of provision and meeting OfSTED requirements. This exciting and innovative new edition supports practitioners in thinking through their responsibilities in tackling some of the many challenges they encounter, for example, that children are still perceived as 'deficit' in some way and in need of 'being school ready' rather than as developing individual
Table of Contents
Contributors
Figures, tables and photographs
Introduction
An overview of early education in England
Part 1: Quality and consistency
Play, learning and developing
Necessary paperwork: Observation and assessment in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Enabling pedagogy: Meanings and practices
Qualifications and quality in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Part 2: A secure foundation
Having real conversations: Engaging children in talk to extend their language and learning
Physical development and outdoor play
Personal, social and emotional development
Early literacy learning in the contemporary age
The teaching and learning of mathematics: A simple matter of 1, 2, 3?
Understanding the world, including ICT
Expressive arts and design
Part 3: Partnership working
The pressures of leading early years services in a changing world
'Parents as partners': The new politics of parenting
Inter-professional practice and very young children
Part 4: Equality of opportunity
School readiness: Starting age, cohorts and transitions in the early years
Playing with gender: Making space for post-human childhood(s)
Without foundation: The EYFS framework and its creation of needs
International perspectives on the Early Years Foundation Stage
Author index
Subject index
