Break Free from Bondage and Step into Lasting DeliveranceHave you ever wondered why, even after salvation, cycles of sin, fear, or addiction keep showing up in your life? Do you struggle with shame that won’t let go, or feel powerless against spiritual battles you can’t explain?Rod Parker nearly lost his life when he was stabbed through the heart. Hovering between life and death, he encountered the crushing weight of darkness and the reality of eternity. Th...

What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens?What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers’ ways of getting to know children?As demands for accountability in Early Years settings continue to grow, external pressure to assess children and to measure their progress can disrupt the development of informal and intimate relationships between teachers and children.The contributors to this book, who include both experienced Steiner educator...

For students of Early Childhood Studies, questions are as important as answers.What is childhood? Is childhood the same in all cultures?How do children grow and develop?What space do we make for children in our society?How do adults approach risk and what does this mean for children?Can children’s play be planned by adults?Early Childhood Studies tackles these questions and more. It explores the why, how and what of stu...

Technologies are a pervasive feature of contemporary life for adults and children. However, young children’s experiences with digital technologies are often the subject of polarised debate among parents, educators, policymakers and social commentators, particularly since the advent of tablets and smartphones changed access to the Internet and the nature of interactions with digital resources. Some are opposed to children’s engagement with digital resources, concerned that the activities th...

Early Childhood Education in the United States is rife with contradictions, critique and innovation. It is a time when a status quo – characterized by systemic, historic discrimination; teacher de-professionalization; 'teaching to the test'; and attacks on funding – is challenged by new technologies, new literacies and transformative and critical perspectives and practices that defy assumptions and biases to create cutting-edge, diverse instantiations of Early Childhood Education for child...

This book provides teachers with scaffolding to develop reflective practice, moving towards an evolving philosophy of education.

This book summarises the ideas of educational theorists and psychologists of the last 60 years, from Elinor Goldschmied to Tina Bruce. It also looks at the important contemporary issues in early years education, from whether boys and girls learn differently to the role of the community in the early years setting.

Facilitating Practitioner Research: Developing transformational partnerships addresses the complex dilemmas and issues that arise in practitioner inquiry. It recognises that facilitating practitioner research is far more than providing advice about method adoption, important as that contribution is; or even modelling research practices and drawing

The author, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in this book. She begins be describing the context for working with her clients; then describes the way she has welded systemic thinking and a feminist perspective into a theoretical model she uses to understand the problem and to guide her own work with the survivors. The descriptions of the the...

This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people.

Anger, Rage and Relationship presents a radically new way to understand and work with anger and rage issues. Taking a relational approach to anger and rage, the book presents a positive view of human nature, supported by recent research findings and illustrated with case studies, with individuals trusted to be essentially pro-social.Rather than promoting strategies and techniques for eradicating anger, Sue Parker Hall, puts forward an approach which seeks to not only work ...

This book supports early years' practitioners in understanding their own practice working with young children in greater depth.