Description
Product ID: | 9780335220137 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Informing Transitions in the Early Years |
Authors: | Author: Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Hilary Fabian |
Page Count: | 176 |
Subjects: | Pre-school and kindergarten, Pre-school & kindergarten |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This book aims to bring attention to children's experiences of personal and curricular transitions in early childhood from entry to group-settings outside home to joining playgroup or nursery school and on into the early years of formal education. An increased emphasis on an early start in group day care and educational settings for young children means that by the time children enter statutory education, they may already have had several transitional experiences: each will have an impact. This book explores early transitions from a variety of international perspectives. Each chapter is informed by rigorous research and makes recommendations on how education professionals can better understand and support transitions in the early years. Contributors examine issues such as:
Informing Transitions in the Early Years is essential reading for early years students, practitioners, policy makers and researchers. |
Imprint Name: | Open University Press |
Publisher Name: | Open University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2006-12-16 |