The only textbook you′ll need to support you through your entire Early Childhood Studies degree. This updated edition is comprehensive and current, with student voices in every chapter.

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

The only textbook you′ll need to support you through your entire Early Childhood Studies degree. This updated edition is comprehensive and current, with student voices in every chapter.

Focused on seeing children in the context of the world they live in, it provides students with a range of perspectives, insights and latest thinking. By doing this, it helps readers understand the complexities of early childhood and critically navigate the ever-changing policy and practice.