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Performing Arts In Early Childhood Education - Aesthetics And Meaning

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 This collection explores the value and meaning of performing arts for young children (birth-6 years old) with a focus on how children aesthetically perceive and make meaning of art.
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Towards A Transformative Pedagogy For Early Childhood Care And Education - Possibilities And Priorities In South Africa

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 This book addresses the priorities and possibilities towards developing transformative pedagogies in post-apartheid South Africa. The book opens up dimensions as priorities that lead to thinking about possibilities that recast adults and young children as transformative agents in a dimension for transformative pedagogies.
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Early Childhood Voices: Children, Families, Professionals

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 This revolutionary book explores theoretical and practical issues of listening to children, families, and professionals who advocate for and work with young children to promote social justice and improve their lives, and to ensure no one is left behind.
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Quality In Early Childhood Education And Care Through Leadership And Organizational Learning - Organizational And Professional Development

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 This book provides insights in to how high quality learning environments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) develop, and how competent systems can support this.
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First Year At School: An International Perspective

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 This book explores an under-researched but vital part of education: the first year at primary/elementary school.
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Methodology For Research With Early Childhood Education And Care Professionals - Example Studies And Theoretical Elaboration

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 <div>This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. </div><div>There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge.This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important andrecurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on. </div>
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Transitions To School: Perspectives And Experiences From Latin America - Research, Policy, And Practice

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 This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies.
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Special Education In The Early Years - Perspectives On Policy And Practice In The Nordic Countries

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 This book explores policies and practices in special education in the early years, highlighting shared enablers and barriers. The book features many aspects of the so-called Nordic model - the economic and social policies common to the Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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Play-Responsive Teaching In Early Childhood Education

by Agneta Jonsson, Anne Kultti, Camilla Bjorklund, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Hanna Palmer, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maria Magnusson, Niklas Pramling, Pernilla Lagerlof e Susanne Thulin

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 This Open Access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children's learning and development through play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research.
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Children'S Exploration And Cultural Formation

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 This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts.
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Outdoor Learning And Play - Pedagogical Practices And Children''S Cultural Formation

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 This Open Access book examines childrenâ€™s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales.
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Young Children In The World And Their Rights - Thirty Years With The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child

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 This book provides different perspectives on the concept of childrenâ€™s rights, including policy, educational, and childrenâ€™s perspectives. Even though the concept of childrenâ€™s rights is omnipresent, the respect for childrenâ€™s rights must be discussed.
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Childrenâ€™S Multilingual Literacy - Fostering Childhood Literacy In Home And Community Settings

by Alexandra Diamond, Bec Neill, Cynthia Brock, Eleni Giannakis, Elspeth Mcinnes, Jenni Carter, Meresiana Krishna, Pauline Harris e Ufemia Camaitoga

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 This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in childrenâ€™s homes and communities in Fiji.
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Comparative Perspectives On Early Childhood Education Reforms In Australia And China

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 This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context.
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Adult Perspectives On Children And Music In Early Childhood

by Aleksandra Acker e Berenice Nyland

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 This book focuses on the importance and role of adults in promoting music in the early years. Designed to promote the idea of the value of music in the early childhood years, the research discussed in this book explores the experiences of a number of adults working with children from birth to age 8.The initiatives discussed in this work all focus on adults who have encouraged the development of musical identities ranging from music in the home, to musical play in the preschool years, preparing a performance with children, and programs for disadvantaged groups that use music as a communicative tool. Each chapter will start with a description of the particular setting and the protagonists’ specific skills and interests and how they came to be working with young children. Themes for the chapters have emerged from the videos and interviews conducted and consist of both reflective and affective experience. The themes include musical background, the adults'' own stories, theories of childhood, and pedagogy and philosophy.
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Children'S Multilingual Literacy - Fostering Childhood Literacy In Home And Community Settings

by Alexandra Diamond, Bec Neill, Cynthia Brock, Eleni Giannakis, Elspeth Mcinnes, Jenni Carter, Meresiana Krishna, Pauline Harris e Ufemia Camaitoga

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 This book offers a comprehensive report on a three-year, cross-cultural, critical participatory action research study, conducted in childrenâ€™s homes and communities in Fiji.
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Peer Play And Relationships In Early Childhood - International Research Perspectives

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 This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play. It presents new understandings of peer play and relationships in chapters drawn from richly varied contexts that involve sibling play, collaborative peer play, and joint play with adults.
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Children'S Self-Determination In The Context Of Early Childhood Education And Services - Discourses, Policies And Practices

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 This book investigates the position of young childrenâ€™s self-determination within a range of social contexts, such as education, social care, mass-media, health, politics, law and the family.
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Music In Early Childhood: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives And Inter-Disciplinary Exchanges

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 This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.
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Challenging Democracy In Early Childhood Education - Engagement In Changing Global Contexts

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 This book explores how concepts and values of contemporary democracy are variously understood and applied in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on children and childhood and diversity.
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Democratic Policies And Practices In Early Childhood Education - An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study

by Linda Mitchell

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 This book uses case studies of Aotearoa New Zealand policy formulation and practice to explore early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a site for democratic citizenship and social justice.
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Digital Childhoods - Technologies And Children’S Everyday Lives

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 This book highlights the multiple ways that digital technologies are being used in everyday contexts at home and school, in communities, and across diverse activities, from play to web searching, to talking to family members who are far away.
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Values Education In Early Childhood Settings - Concepts, Approaches And Practices

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 This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives.
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Nordic Social Pedagogical Approach To Early Years

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 This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. The Nordic tradition applies a social learning approach that emphasizes play, relationships and outdoor life, and presumes that learning takes place through childrenâ€™s participation in social interaction and processes.
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