Supporting early learning : the way forward / Vicky Hurst and Jenefer Joseph.
By: Hurst, Victoria
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Contributor(s): Joseph, Jenny.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Supporting early learning: Publisher: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1998Description: xi, 99 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 033519950X .Subject(s): Early childhood education | Early childhood education -- Curricula | Early childhood education -- Parent participation | Learning, Psychology of | Child developmentDDC classification: 372.21 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 372.21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00071332 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Addressing such questions as how to ensure all young children have access to high quality education, and what constitutes an appropriate curriculum between birth and 6 years of age, this text also looks at how best nursery nurses, playgroup leaders, teachers and childminders can work with parents to enhance education of children.
Bibliography: (pages 92-95) and index.
Introduction -- Children learning -- Personal and moral development -- An adaptable curriculum for a changing world -- Play and learning -- Observation: underpinning appropriate education -- Parents and practitioners: sharing education -- The way forward.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. viii)
- Preface (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Children learning (p. 8)
- 2 Personal and moral development (p. 27)
- 3 An adaptable curriculum for a changing world (p. 37)
- 4 Play and learning (p. 50)
- 5 Observation: underpinning appropriate education (p. 62)
- 6 Parents and practitioners: sharing education (p. 69)
- 7 The way forward (p. 80)
- Bibliography (p. 92)
- Index (p. 96)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom on May 7, 1932. She read English at St Hilda's College Oxford. She held a variety of jobs including being a newspaper reporter, a lecturer in language and literature, and landlady of a London pub. She wrote several poetry and prose collections including Selected Poems and Nothing Like Love. She received several awards including a Gregory Award for The Unlooked-for Season, a Cholmondeley Award for Rose in the Afternoon, and the James Tait Black Prize for fiction for Persephone. Her poem Warning went on to inspire the launch of the Red Hat Society. She died after a short illness on January 8, 2018 at the age of 85.(Bowker Author Biography)