Implementing The Early Years Foundation Stage
A Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2009
276 pages
978-0-335-23913-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through practical activities and case studies, the authors provide you with straight forward guidelines for implementing the statutory requirements and developing your practice. The book covers the main outline of the document, providing a discussion for the themes and rational as well as making links to current research, theory and practice.
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Implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage: A Handbook
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Content
- Front cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- The contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Definition of terms
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Historical perspective
- Every Child Matters
- The Early Years Foundation Stage
- Research
- Provision
- Part 1 A Unique Child
- 1 Child development
- 2 Inclusive Practice
- 3 Keeping Safe
- 4 Health and well-being
- Part 2 Positive Relationships
- 5 Respecting each other
- 6 Parents as partners
- 7 Supporting Learning
- 8 Key person
- Part 3 Enabling Environments
- 9 Observation, assessment and planning
- 10 Supporting every child
- 11 The learning environment
- 12 The wider context
- Part 4 Learning and Development
- 13 Play and Exploration
- 14 Active learning
- 15 Creativity and critical thinking
- 16 The welfare requirements
- Part 5 Areas of Learning and Development
- 17 Personal, social and emotional development
- 18 Communication, Language and Literacy Development
- 19 Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
- 20 Knowledge and understanding of the world
- 21 Creative Development
- 22 Physical development
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Reference List and Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
