Young Children Learning

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Tricia David
SAGE, Jul 27, 1999 - Education - 224 pages
`I particularly enjoyed Judith Roden's chapter "Young Children Are Natural Scientists" especially her thoughts on children's drawings, which puncture some popular assumptions' - Times Educational Supplement, Friday Magazine

`Tricia David, an internationally recognised expert in early years eductaion, has brought together 11 tutors from Christ Church College Canterbury to "encourage debate and disagreement"....It has..some absorbing and helpful contributions which both bring forward the debate in early years education and also may cause readers to reappraise their own practice, possibly as a result of disagreeing with one or other contributers' - International Journal of Early Years Education

 

Contents

young children learning
1
Balancing the needs of children parents and teachers
13
the key to learning
32
Play health and physical development
46
the education of young children with
67
Pressure stress and childrens behaviour at school
90
the childs understanding of
107
Using interpretive procedures
117
Young children are natural scientists
130
Bilingual children in a monolingual society
156
Spiritual development and religious education
168
childrens development of national
184
Changing childhoods changing minds
204
Index
221
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