Unique new text introducing the theories and concepts of Early Childhood Education and Care, highlighting the knowledge, values and skills required to become a competent ECEC practitioner in Ireland today.
Written by educators, practitioners and policy experts from across Ireland, this book is organised in four parts:
Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Early Childhood Education and Care
Introduces students to the key concepts and theories from a range of relevant disciplines, enabling them to make sense of a child’s place in the world.
Part 2: Approaches to Early Childhood Education and Care
Demonstrates the richness and breadth of pre-school learning models, describing the numerous theoretical and practical perspectives in early education and care.
Part 3: Pedagogy and Learning
Explores the different types of environments and situations contributing to young children’s learning and reinforces the importance of engaging with parents and the community.
Part 4: structures and Issues
Outlines the unique character of the ECEC sector in Ireland, while also highlighting the importance of ethics and the significance of diversity in ECEC practice.
Suitable For:
Undergraduate degree programmes in Early Childhood Education and Care in Institutes of Technology and Colleges of Education.
Unique new text introducing the theories and concepts of Early Childhood Education and Care, while highlighting the knowledge, values and skills required to become a competent ECEC practitioner in Ireland today. Written by educators, practitioners and policy experts from across Ireland, this book is organised in four parts: Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Early Childhood Education and Care Introduces students to the key concepts and theories from a range of relevant disciplines, enabling them to make sense of a child’s place in the world. Part 2: Approaches to ECEC Demonstrates the richness and breadth of pre-school learning models, describing the numerous theoretical and practical perspectives in early education and care. Part 3: Pedagogy and Learning Explores the different types of environments and situations contributing to young children’s learning and reinforces the importance of engaging with parents and the community. Part 4: Issues and Context Outlines the unique character of the ECEC sector in Ireland, while also highlighting the importance of ethics and the significance of diversity in ECEC practice. Show moreUnique new text introducing the theories and concepts of Early Childhood Education and Care, highlighting the knowledge, values and skills required to become a competent ECEC practitioner in Ireland today.
Written by educators, practitioners and policy experts from across Ireland, this book is organised in four parts:
Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Early Childhood Education and Care
Introduces students to the key concepts and theories from a range of relevant disciplines, enabling them to make sense of a child’s place in the world.
Part 2: Approaches to Early Childhood Education and Care
Demonstrates the richness and breadth of pre-school learning models, describing the numerous theoretical and practical perspectives in early education and care.
Part 3: Pedagogy and Learning
Explores the different types of environments and situations contributing to young children’s learning and reinforces the importance of engaging with parents and the community.
Part 4: structures and Issues
Outlines the unique character of the ECEC sector in Ireland, while also highlighting the importance of ethics and the significance of diversity in ECEC practice.
Suitable For:
Undergraduate degree programmes in Early Childhood Education and Care in Institutes of Technology and Colleges of Education.
Unique new text introducing the theories and concepts of Early Childhood Education and Care, while highlighting the knowledge, values and skills required to become a competent ECEC practitioner in Ireland today. Written by educators, practitioners and policy experts from across Ireland, this book is organised in four parts: Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Early Childhood Education and Care Introduces students to the key concepts and theories from a range of relevant disciplines, enabling them to make sense of a child’s place in the world. Part 2: Approaches to ECEC Demonstrates the richness and breadth of pre-school learning models, describing the numerous theoretical and practical perspectives in early education and care. Part 3: Pedagogy and Learning Explores the different types of environments and situations contributing to young children’s learning and reinforces the importance of engaging with parents and the community. Part 4: Issues and Context Outlines the unique character of the ECEC sector in Ireland, while also highlighting the importance of ethics and the significance of diversity in ECEC practice. Show moreIntroduction: Children at the Centre of Practice
PART 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of Early Childhood
Education and Care
1: The Development of Early Childhood Education in Ireland in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
2: Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Development During the
Early Years
3: Understanding Child Health and Well-being
4: Sociological Perspectives on Childhood
5: The Legal Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
6: Social Policy and Early Childhood Education and Care
PART 2: Approaches to Early Childhood Education and
Care
7: Síolta: The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood
Education
8: Aistear: The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework
9: Engaging with Early Childhood Education Models
10: The Montessori Approach to Early Childhood Education
11: The HighScope Approach to Early Learning
12: Reggio Emilia
13: Friedrich Froebel and Early Childhood Education
14: Steiner Waldorf Early Years Education
15: Na Naíonraí
16: Learning to Play and Playing to Learn
17: The What, Why and How of Inclusive Early Years Practice
18: Early Interventions in Early Childhood Education and Care
19: Early Childhood Education in the Primary School Curriculum
PART 3: Pedagogy and Learning
20: Perspectives on Early Learning
21: Child Language in the Early Years
22: Children’s Literature and Early Literacy
23: Numeracy through Play and Real-Life Experiences
24: Learning Outdoors
25: Working with Parents in Early Years Services
PART 4: Structures and Issues
26: Why Working with Diversity and Equality in Early Childhood
Education and Care Matters
27: The Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in Ireland
28: The Application and Uses of Ethics in Early Childhood Education
and Care
29: Practice Placement and Reflection
30: The Future: Where are We Going?
Maire Mhic Mhathuna, MEd, PhD, is a lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Dr Mark Taylor is a lecturer in the School of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology, Sligo.
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