A focal point of early childhood education is how young children build knowledge and the ways that practitioners, parents and carers can help them to do so. Many adults find it challenging to identify what knowledge young children are building and how they do so, making it difficult to support young children’s learning and development in the most effective ways. This essential guide will help you to identify and develop young children’s knowledge and understanding in early years settings, ...

Diverse international perspectives on the ways in which young children’s learning and care may be supported converge in this book. Traversing the field of early childhood education and care from its established philosophical underpinnings to 21st century research, policies, and practices, the contributions to this volume draw together past and present discourses as a basis for shaping future trajectories.In spite of a growing international consensus on the strong influence of early...

In spite of our apparently connected global environment, people are becoming less connected. Digital communication leads to fewer face-to-face engagements, and many young children are separated from their parents for extended periods. The post-truth phenomenon has resulted in mistrust between policymakers and the people they serve, whilst increased immigration has led to some rich countries adopting a protectionist stance that transforms collaboration into separatism.At its 2014 me...

Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children’s Rights reflects upon the status of children aged 0–8 years around the world, whether they are respected or neglected, and how we may move forward. With contributions from international experts and emerging authorities on children’s rights, Murray, Blue Swadener and Smith have produced this highly significant textbook on yo...

This book is an essential tool for all healthcare professionals. An understanding of the law and the way in which it impacts upon roles, responsibilities and care is a vital component in everyday healthcare. Written in a clear and concise style, Health Records in Court provides practical legal advice by highlighting real-life healthcare case studies and workplace examples. It offers much-needed, clearly explained guidance for navigating the complexities and intricacies of medico-legal proc...

Random House Audiobooks present The Audiobook of the Year, written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish: James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber.In a year when much of the news was believable but fake, comes an audiobook packed with stories that are unbelievable but true.The Audiobook of the Year is a feature-length edition of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A F...

During the six long years of the Second World War the British psyche was changed irrevocably. British men and women on both the war front and at home were forced to take life-altering decisions, independently. What no-one could predict was the consequences on the family and on society of these independent journeys by husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, siblings. Nobody would ever be the same.We Shall Never Surrender takes us through key moments in that six- year conflict t...

Business English – schnell fit für den JobRund 60 Minuten Hör- und Sprechtraining, um Vorstellungsgespräche erfolgreich zu meisternAcht Dialoge rund ums VorstellungsgesprächAbwechslungsreiche Übungen zum Vertiefen der gebräuchlichen Wendungen und AusdrückeAlle Hörtexte mit deutscher Übersetzung und Business-Wortschatz im Begleitheft (PDF)

This audiobook contains a series of guided meditations on the subject of love and the different elements that make love arise in our lives. This is a gentle exploration of the grandeur and capacity of each human heart.

In this first Series of Peacebeams for Kids we take you on a journey that will help you to build self-esteem, practice kindness to yourself and others, learn how to calm yourself with your breath and how to take a different perspective on the difficult emotions we all experience from time to time. Designed to be helpful, soothing and kind these short meditations will help to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

In this second Series of Peacebeams for Kids we take you on a journey that will help you to worry less, smile more and practice kindness to yourself and others. Designed to be helpful, soothing and kind these short meditations will help to lift your spirits, warm your heart and remind you to smile as often as possible!

Progress in the social sciences entails developing and improving theoretical understanding of social phenomena and improving methods for collecting and analyzing data. Theories organize what we know or expect to learn about phenomena and methods provide the evidential basis for the theories. While we have witnessed great strides in the development of statistical methods, there is less information for developing theories. In Developing Theories in the Social Sciences, Jane Sell and Murray W...