| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Psychology and Early Childhood Studies -- 2. Sociology and Early Childhood Studies -- 3. Social Policy and Early Childhood Studies -- 4. Pedagogy and Early Childhood Studies -- 5. Enhancing Learning and Early Childhood Studies -- 6. Research Methods and Early Childhood Studies |
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Introduction -- Book structure -- Learning features -- Professional development and reflective practice -- 1. Psychology and Early Childhood Studies -- Introduction -- Defining the discipline of psychology -- Origins of psychology -- The schools of psychology -- Behaviourism -- Humanism -- Psychodynamic theory -- Cognitive theory -- Biological psychology -- Applying psychology to early years -- Psychological therapies and the early years -- 2. Sociology and Early Childhood Studies -- Defining sociology -- The sociological perspectives -- Functionalism -- Interactionism -- Conflict theory -- Applying sociology to early years -- Critical appraisal of how sociological theory can be used by early years -- Foucauldian shadows of power and oppression -- 3. Social Policy and Early Childhood Studies -- What is social policy? -- The social policy process -- The concept of partnership -- Historical factors influencing social policy -- The 'partnership approach' to social policy and early years -- 4. Pedagogy and Early Childhood Studies -- Introduction -- Educational psychology -- Theories of learning: behaviourism -- Cognitive learning theory -- Humanist pedagogical theory -- Learning theories, domains of learning and pedagogy -- Learning theories review -- Taxonomies of learning -- Good classroom communication skills -- 5. Enhancing Learning and Early Childhood Studies -- Introduction -- Defining the curriculum, widening participation and inclusion -- Curriculum design and implementation for inclusive practice -- Reviewing, evaluating and adapting the early years curriculum to promote inclusive practice -- Equality and diversity -- ethical and legal issues and curriculum development for inclusive practice -- Appraising the curriculum -- 6. Research Methods and Early Childhood Studies -- Defining research -- The research process -- Competing perspectives -- Research methods -- Validity -- Reliability -- Triangulation -- Research ethics -- The research models -- The research methods -- Analysing data -- Critical appraisal of the research process -- Example research project in Early Childhood Studies -- Conclusion -- Book structure |
| Summary |
Early Childhood Studies: A Social Science Perspective explores key issues in early childhood studies from a variety of social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social policy and education. Each chapter considers a different social science discipline, identifying, analysing and critically assessing how that particular discipline enriches early years provision and research. User-friendly student features are included throughout, including: icebreakers introduce the main chapter themes objectives help readers to develop cognitive skills, moving from identifying to analysing to |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social sciences.
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Early childhood education.
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Education, Primary.
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social sciences.
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early childhood education.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Education, Primary
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Early childhood education
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Social sciences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441171191 |
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1441171193 |
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9781441132277 |
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1441132279 |
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9781441132277 |
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1283853426 |
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9781283853422 |
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9781472552877 |
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1472552873 |
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