Child Care and Early Education
Good practice to support young children and their families
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cengage Learning EMEA
Published:10th Oct '02
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Child Care and Early Education has been written as a course companion to all major level 3 childcare qualifications including the CACHE Diploma in Early Years Care and Education, S/NVQ Early Years Care and Education and BTEC National in Early Years. Written from a more practical angle than existing childcare texts, Child Care and Early Education successfully covers the theory associated with all aspects of care and education for the under eights. Suitable for use as a course textbook with a supervisor, college tutor or NVQ assessor, Child Care and Early Education will also be valuable for practitioners who want to extend their own practice. It offers advice on building your own portfolio, learning to use resources and continued professional development. Written in an accessible and lively style, Child Care and Early Education is up to date on current childcare practice. It offers support, information and practical suggestions for practitioners in all types of early years and out of school care settings and also for readers working in a family home as nannies and childminders. Highly successful and established author Jennie Lindon offers different perspectives on some challenging issues often omitted from childcare texts.
Introduction 1. The early years of childhood 2. Caring for children ? caring about children 3. Promoting health and well being through food and mealtimes 4. Keeping children well and healthy 5. Conception and birth 6. Care and development of babies 7. Supporting children?s personal and social development 8. Children in a social world: emotions, thinking and actions 9. Physical development and skills 10. Learning opportunities through physical activities 11. The development of communication and spoken language 12. Supporting children?s development of literacy 13. Thinking and intellectual development 14. Supporting children?s learning within the curriculum 15. Planning for children?s learning 16. Observation, record keeping and assessment 17. A positive approach to children?s behaviour 18. Children with disabilities and continuing health conditions 19. Child protection in the early years 20.Developing good practice as an early years practitioner 21.Partnership with parents Appendix 1: Working towards an early years qualification Appendix 2: Useful organisations Glossary Index
ISBN: 9781861527226
Dimensions: 259mm x 193mm x 30mm
Weight: 1610g
704 pages
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