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Threads of Thinking: Schemas and Young Children′s Learning
Contributor(s): Nutbrown, Cathy (Author)
ISBN: 1849204632     ISBN-13: 9781849204637
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $135.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent
- Education | Educational Psychology
Dewey: 370.15
LCCN: 2010936508
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (1.10 lbs) 216 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
In her new edition of this popular book, Cathy Nutbrown presents evidence of continuity and progression in young children′s thinking. She shows, with detailed observation, that they are able and active learners. She considers aspects of children′s patterns of learning and thinking--or schemas--and demonstrates clearly how children learn in an active, dynamic and creative way.

This book makes schema theory explicit in practice. Supported by numerous detailed examples and the discussion of difficult theoretical issues, it illustrates children′s learning in areas such as literacy, maths and science.

This Fourth Edition includes:
  • A new chapter on professional development

  • Changes in early years and primary practice

  • More coverage of theories of learning in relation to pedagogy

Threads of Thinking is for early years practitioners who wish to support and develop children′s learning.

Professor Cathy Nutbrown is Director of the Masters program in Early Childhood Education at the University of Sheffield.

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.