Understanding Early Childhood Issues and Controversies

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Free Download Helen Penn, "Understanding Early Childhood: Issues and Controversies"
English | 2008 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 0335225500 | PDF | 5,4 mb
Review of the first edition:

"This book should be essential reading for every student of Early Childhood. Helen Penn is a highly regarded academic who has the rare ability to write simply and lucidly about complex issues. This eagerly awaited new edition provides a lively critical overview of the field. Highly recommended."
Professor Trisha Maynard, Head of the Department of Childhood Studies, Swansea University, UK
Understanding Early Childhood provides students with a clear, user-friendly introduction to a number of difficult concepts and theories in early childhood education. Drawing on research evidence from various countries and reviewing studies about children from different disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, psychology and sociology - it offers broad and insightful perspectives on the ways in which we understand and study young children.
Revised and updated throughout, the second edition covers contemporary theories and debates in a concise and accessible style. Unique features include:

• A critical discussion of child development
  
• A broad interdisciplinary approach
  
• A general overview of theoretical approaches and research methodologies
  
• New coverage of global trends about childhood.
  
• An important new chapter on the economics of early education and care
  
• Updates on the relevance of neuroscience and genetic research to early childhood
  
• 'What to read next' at the end of each chapter
  
• The ability to be used by varying levels of students The book concludes with a postscript on the theme of interdisciplinary thinking and a critique of current policy initiatives in the UK.
  

Understanding Early Childhood is key reading for early childhood students and practitioners working with young children.

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