4th Edition

Teaching and Learning in the Early Years

Edited By David Whitebread, Penny Coltman Copyright 2015
    394 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    394 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This best-selling text book provides a broad-ranging and up-to-date review of thinking and best practice within nursery and infant education. Written around the basic truth that an effective early years curriculum must start with the children, their needs and their potential, the contributors to this classic text acknowledge that learning must have a strong element of fun, wonder and excitement.

    Fully revised and updated in light of recent changes to the Early Years curriculum, with brand new chapters on assessment, communication, writing, creativity and diversity, the contributors address a range of fundamental issues and principles, including:

      • an analysis of research into how children learn;
      • discussions of issues such as classroom organisation, curriculum management, and assessment;
      • a detailed section on play and language;
      • chapters covering individual curriculum areas, including new chapters on music and PSHE.

    Each chapter combines a review of important principles with practical and inspiring classroom examples throughout. It is essential reading for all Foundations Stage and KS1 trainee teachers, their tutors and mentors, and serving teachers working in the 3-7 age range who wish to reflect upon and develop their practice.

    Chapter 1: Introduction: Young Children Learning and Early Years Teaching

    David Whitebread

    PART A: Basic Principles and Approaches

    Chapter 2: ‘Our classroom is like a little cosy house!’: Organising the early years classroom to encourage self-regulated learning

    David Whitebread with Rebecca Dawkins, Sue Bingham, Harriet Rhodes & Kate Hemming

    Chapter 3: 'My mum would pay anything for chocolate cake!' Organising the Whole Curriculum: Enterprise Projects in the Early Years

    Penny Coltman, David Whitebread & Jayne Greenwood

    Chapter 4: 'When the chicks hatch a man will come and bring them yolk to eat’: Assessment in the early years

    Amy Arnold

    Chapter 5: "This is the best day of my life! And I’m not leaving here until it’s time to go home!": The Outdoor Learning Environment

    Christine Parker

    PART B: Play & Language

    Chapter 6: ‘Listen to my idea!’ Communication and Language in the Early Years

    Nancy Stewart

    Chapter 7: 'It is only a story, isn't it?' Interactive Story-making in the Early Years Classroom

    Lesley Hendy

    Chapter 8: "I can write… on my own!" Writing in the Early Years

    Helen Bradford

    Chapter 9: 'What's that dog thinking, Mrs. Bromley?' Picture Books and Learning to Read

    Helen Bromley

    PART C: The Wider Curriculum

    Chapter 10: 'We are passing the smile around' Personal, Social, Health and Emotional Education in the Early Years

    Sue Bingham

    Chapter 11: 'How do I do this better?' From Movement Development into Physical Literacy

    Trish Maude

    Chapter 12: "I’ve got a song to sing": Creating a Musical Environment for Children in their Early Years

    Linda Bance

    Chapter 13: ‘Once there was someone who walked on the sky.’ Creativity in the Early Years

    Kate Cowan & Miles Berry

    Chapter 14: 'How many toes has a newt?' Science in the Early Years

    Penny Coltman

    Chapter 15: ‘How many shapey ones have you got?’ : Number and Shape in the Early Years

    Sue Gifford & Penny Coltman

    Chapter 16: 'But what does it do?' Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Early Years: An Emergent Approach

    John Siraj-Blatchford

    Chapter 17: So what is long ago and where is far away.....? A sense of time and place

    Jayne Greenwood & Holly Linklater

    Chapter 18: "Why is she all yellowy Miss?" "Why have you got two mums" "You can’t use the pink - you’re a boy!" : Embracing diversity & difference in the Early Years

    Natalie Heath

    PART D: The Way Forward

    Chapter 19: Whatever Next? Future Trends in Early Years Education

    Mary Jane Drummond

    Index

    Biography

    David Whitebread is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge, UK.

    Penny Coltman is a Lecturer in Early Years Education, University of Cambridge, UK. 

    'The fact that the book is now in its fourth edition speaks for itself, showing the value placed on the book by practitioners.Full of good ideas, this is a highly readable book which merits a place in every Early Years setting and will also be a valuable resource for students.'- Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch