Childhood

This fully revised edition describes the key principles of the Forest School approach to early childhood supported with examples and case studies. Including a new chapter on the curriculum it explores all aspects of the approach including the social and political background to using nature pedagogy,..

Using case studies from Kazakhstan, Swaziland, Himalayan India and Brazil, this book discusses how poverty is recognized and defined, and how political and economic conditions undermine or even prematurely end the lives of millions of young children...

Using case studies from Kazakhstan, Swaziland, Himalayan India and Brazil, this book discusses how poverty is recognized and defined, and how political and economic conditions undermine or even prematurely end the lives of millions of young children...

This volume is a collection of articles that showcase new research that is emerging from laboratory schools, guided by principles of applied developmental science. _x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Early Education and Development...

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of ‘childhood’ and ‘childhood development and learning’ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows ..

This book explores current research on young children’s beliefs and knowledge about the biological world. It was originally published as a special issue of Early Education and Development...

The textbook is one of the first books to map out the scales, themes and sites engaged with by young people on a daily basis as they construct their multiple identities. The scales explored here include the body, neighbourhood and community, mobilities and transitions and urban-rural settings and ho..