Helping with Behaviour Establishing the positive and addressing the difficult in the early years
Helping with Behaviour shows how to establish good practice in early years settings, so that all children are supported in developing positive interactions with each other. The author explains the features of an 'emotionally literate' environment that meets the needs of more vulnerable children and looks at how to respond effectively when children are distressed and hard to manage, providing plenty of ideas and inspiration throughout.
Observing, Assessing and Planning for Children in the Early Years
Anyone working with young children will, by their very nature, be extremely good at listening to them, and to watching them play and learn. But how can these observations be properly used and understood?
Identifying Additional Learning Needs in the Early Years: Listening to the Children
'I know there is something wrong, but what?' 'How do I know if outside help for this child is needed?' 'How do I tell parents that their child could have a learning difficulty?' These are questions that most nursery workers, at some point in their careers, will have to face. Based on the lives of real children and typical situations in early years settings, early years practitioners will find this book invaluable in helping them care for and educate young children with additional learning difficulties.
This book challenges long-established beliefs about early childhood education. It offers readers the opportunity to think about the aspects of their profession that are fundamental to providing effective and equitable educational opportunities for young children in the 21st century. Well-known contributors explore issues that are not only ‘critical’ in terms of being fundamental to early childhood education, but also ‘critical’ in that they present alternative ideas and use frameworks that are not traditional to the field.
From the Baltic to the Black Sea - Studies in Medieval Archaeology
From the Baltic to the Black Sea offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Selections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations, and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states emerged.
