Description
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Early Childhood is a comprehensive textbook which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children. Engaging and clear, it provides students with a user-friendly introduction to a number of difficult concepts and theories in early childhood education, drawing on research evidence from various countries and taking an interdisciplinary approach.
Revised and updated throughout, the third edition brings contemporary theories and debates bang up-to-date in a concise, accessible and yet reflective style. Unique features include:
- A substantial and critically informed discussion of child development
- An updated overview of theoretical approaches and research methodologies
- Considerable revisions on neuroscience and genetic research in light of recent developments
- Extended coverage of ethics
- The challenges and problematic nature of interdisciplinary wo
Table of Contents
PrefaceRemembering childhood
Researching reality
Not Piaget again
Genes, neurons and ancestors
On the other side of the world
Past, present and future
Children's rights and the ethics of childhood
What it costs and what it's worth: the economics of early childhood
Practice makes no difference
An interdisciplinary approach?
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Index
