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Book Synopsis* Fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children. * Turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children.
Trade Review'The positive and extremely important message that comes from 'Young Children Learning' is that young children learn a great deal of value in the most informal of settings. The evidence that Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes present to support this conclusion is convincing and stimulating.'
Peter Bryant, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsForeword – Judy Dunn vii
Preface xiii
1. Why we studied children learning 1
2. How we carried out this study 11
3. Learning at home: play, games, stories and ‘lessons’ 22
4. Learning at home: living and talking together 54
5. The puzzling mind of the four-year-old 80
6. Working-class verbal deprivation: myth or reality? 107
7. An afternoon with Donna and her mother 132
8. How the children fared at nursery school 148
9. The working-class girls, including Donna, at school 179
10. The gap between home and nursery school 197
11. Young children learning 209
Statistical appendix 227
Notes 236
Index of children 241
General index 242
