The perfect guide for students who need to get to grips with learning theories and how they relate to practice, this book covers Early and Modern theorists and their theories, and how they apply to early years education today.

Now up-to-date with new chapters and masters-level content, this new edition offers an overview of modern teaching practice in an engaging and accessible manner.

In this book the authors push forward our understanding of what young children's creative thinking is, and how it promotes young children's well-being.

With a wide range of contributions from highly respected researchers, this handbook examines historical, current and future research issues in play and learning scholarship, offering clarity and breadth in this dynamic and changing field.

This book draws on the projects and experiences of senior researchers from nations including Australia, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the USA to highlight multiple approaches to pedagogical documentation.

Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

This book brings together theory on parents and early learning, and the role of education professionals in developing partnerships with families, focussing on how to support parents in their teaching of literacy and other aspects of early learning at home.

This book provides practitioners and undergraduates with a greater understanding of the position of the researcher, how to facilitate research and the ways in which research underpins raising achievement and change in the workplace.