Play, Learning and the Early Childhood Curriculum
- Elizabeth Wood - University of Sheffield, UK
The new edition includes coverage of:
- play in education policies; UK and international perspectives
- working with parents
- social and cultural diversity
- children with special educational needs and disabilities
- outdoor play
Each chapter includes case studies provided by practitioners, along with questions and tasks to promote critical engagement and reflection on key issues and debates.
This book is for students on Childhood Studies courses and those on Initial Teacher Education and Masters programmes in early childhood and primary education. Experienced practitioners on CPD courses will also find it useful.
Contemporary debates surrounding playful pedagogy and the early year’s curriculum are thoroughly discussed in the informative text. Excellent resource for truly understanding play. Highly recommended for undergraduate as well as postgraduate study.
The main emphasis of this book is play and this is a subject that students often feel that they know everything about - however this book opens up different concepts and ideas and will give real food for thought. I particularly like the 'activity' boxes
Excellent text for students and practitioners.
This is an excellent critical companion to playful pedagogy and the current curriculum. This text has encouraged much debate in the classroom and has been a source of thought provoking discussion.
An essential text for final year and post graduate students
Very useful and accessible text for students to help them to understand the place of play in the Early Years Curriculum.
A good source of information on what is often a popular and yet difficult topic for novice research students
This book helps sudents to understand the relationship between play, learning and development and pedagogy and the refelctive tasks maintain the students' interest levels.
An essential book for students on an Early Years FD course as it effectively links practice to theory and curriculum.
An excellent book providing a contempory view of play. The book will be useful for students within a variety of modules across the three year programme, so providing good value for money.
