A Critical Companion to Early Childhood (eBook)

Part I: Developing Critical Reflection - Michael Reed and Rosie Walker
Chapter 1: The Undergraduate Journey - Michael Reed, Linda Tyler and Rosie Walker
Chapter 2: Reflective Practice - Karen Hanson and Karen Appleby
Chapter 3: The Ethical Practitioner with Children and Families - Sue Callan
Chapter 4: Critical Thinking - Jennifer Worsley and Catherine Lamond
Chapter 5: ICT and Learning for Students: A New Way of Thinking - Michelle Rogers
Part II: The Developing Child - Michael Reed and Rosie Walker
Chapter 6: Deliberating on Practices with Young Children in the United States - Mary Benson McMullen
Chapter 7: 'Vygotsky Rocks!' An Argument That Helps Use Lev Vygotsky's Ideas in Early Years Practice - Anna Popova
Chapter 8: The Developing Child: Some Critical Perspectives - Jackie Musgrave
Chapter 9: Play and Creativity: How Important Is This in Terms of the Developing Child? - Frances Brett
Chapter 10: Repositioning Developmentalism - Anna Kilderry
Part III: Taking a Holistic View - Michael Reed and Rosie Walker
Chapter 11: Security and Attachment - Robin Balbernie
Chapter 12: Developing Child in Society: Making Transitions - Aline Wendy Dunlop
Chapter 13: Taking a Holistic View: Critically Examining Complex Professional Issues - Claire M Richards
Chapter 14: The Language of Special Educational Needs: Learning from the Past to Build the Future - Caroline Jones
Chapter 15: Supporting Children with Complex Health Needs and Life-Limiting Conditions and Their Families - Erica Brown
Part IV: Policy and Practice - Michael Reed and Rosie Walker
Chapter 16: Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway? - Derval Carey-Jenkins
Chapter 17: Approaches to the Early Years Curriculum: A Critical View from Wales - Sian Wyn Siencyn
Chapter 18: Parental Involvement and Partnership with Parents: "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" - Martin Needham and Dianne Jackson
Chapter 19: Supporting Parents - Josephine Bleach
Chapter 20: Policy into Practice: Implementing the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia from a Western Australian Perspective - Sandra Hesterman
Part V: Professional Roles and Responsibilities - Michael Reed and Rosie Walker
Chapter 21: Professional Roles and Responsibilities: Professional Practice and Early Childhood Today - Michael Gasper
Chapter 22: Integrated Working in Practice: Why Don't Professionals Talk to Each Other? - Alison Nicholls
Chapter 23: Children's Developing Identity - Victoria Cooper
Chapter 24: Assessment: A Critical Companion to Early Childhood Pedagogy - Alma Fleet
Chapter 25: The Responsibility of the Practice-Based Researcher - Carla Solvason