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Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care
Contributor(s): Nutbrown, Cathy (Author)
ISBN: 1849204004     ISBN-13: 9781849204002
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $147.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
- Education | Research
Dewey: 362.7
Series: Key Concepts (Sage)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care, Cathy Nutbrown′s second edition, explains the key ideas and issues in Early Childhood clearly and concisely, keeping students up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.

New entries include:

  • Attachment
  • Babies′ learning and development
  • Children′s Centers
  • Citizenship
  • Digital Technologies
  • Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Early Years Professional Status
  • Neuroscience
  • Sexualities

The rest of the book has also been thoroughly updated and revised, and includes coverage of heuristic play, Early Literacy Development and Parental Involvement.

Contributor Bio(s): Nutbrown, Cathy: - Professor Cathy Nutbrown is Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches and researches in the field of early childhood education.

Cathy began her career as a teacher of young children and has since worked in a range of settings and roles with children, parents, teachers, and other early childhood educators. Cathy is committed to finding ways of working 'with respect' with young children, and sees the concept of quality in the context of what it means to develop curriculum and pedagogy in the early years with the ambition of working in a climate of 'respectful education'.

She established the University of Sheffield MA in Early Childhood Education in 1998 and a Doctoral Programme in Early Childhood Education in 2008. In 2010 she contributed to the Tickell Review of the Early Years Foundation In June 2012 she reported on her year-long independent review for government on early years and childcare qualifications (The Nutbrown Review). She is Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE Journal of Early Childhood Research and author of over fifty publications on aspects of early childhood education.

?Cathy Nutbrown will be discussing ideas from Early Childhood Educational Research in Doing Your Early Years Research Project, a SAGE Masterclass for early years students and practitioners in collaboration with Kathy Brodie. Find out more here.