This book offers unparalleled insight into dialectic encounters between teachers, pedagogistas and atelieristas in the world-renowned municipal early childhood services of the city of Reggio Emilia.

Multicultural Play Therapy fills a wide gap in the play therapy literature. Each chapter helps expand play therapists’ cultural awareness, humility, and competence so they can work more effectively with children of diverse cultures, races, and belief systems.

This volume documents the growth of a new kind of interdisciplinary teamwork that is evolving among practitioners, researchers, teacher educators, and community partners. Its premise: the design of learning environments and the development of theory must proceed in a mutually supportive fashion. Scientific researchers have learned that a prerequisite to studying the kinds of learning that matter is helping to shoulder the responsibility for ensuring that these forms of learning occur.

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The Art and Science of Helping: Developing Fundamental Skills in a Multicultural Age introduces the fundamentals of practising helping-skills to undergraduates, graduates, and those preparing for entry-level helping professions.

It's not what you do, it's how you think about what you do. Educational thought leaders detail ten mindframes at the heart of successful school leadership.

Exploring a range of teaching approaches to meet different learning styles, this book helps trainee teachers become confident, reflective teachers of reading.