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Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start by Magda Gerber
$45.00 NZD
Category: Babies
"At long last -- Magda Gerber's wisdom and spice captured in a book --what a treasure! Now parents and caregivers everywhere can benefit from learning what it means to truly respect babies."--Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Author of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers and Dragon Mom "Magda Gerber's approach will d ...Show more
Teaching and Learning with Infants and Toddlers - Where Meaning-Making Begins by Mary Jane Maguire-Fong
$50.00 NZD
$73.00 (31% off)
Category: Early Childhood Education
This groundbreaking book explores infants’ amazing capacity to learn and presents a reflective approach to teaching inspired by the early childhood schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to illustrate how infants are robust investigators, in ...Show more
Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers : Resources for Infant Educators (RIE) Principles into Practice by Stephanie Petrie
$63.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security in young children. Based on a philosophy of respect and sensitive observation of infants, it is appropr ...Show more
Autism and Learning : A Guide to Good Practice by Stuart Powell
$80.00 NZD
Category: School Guidance
Autism is a complex and often puzzling disorder in which pinning down a set of rules surrounding the teaching of children with it is almost impossible to do. Many theories and approaches claim to have the solution to teaching, yet few provide the answers when an autistic child goes against the status qu ...Show more
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Education
First published in 1915, John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" is considered by many to be a landmark examination into the philosophy of education and its importance in a democratic society. In this influential treatise, Dewey argues for a progressive model of education because an effective educational ...Show more
Setting the Scene for Positive Behaviour in the Early Years: A framework for good practice by Jason Swale
$85.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
Instead of focusing on the child as the problem, this book shows, in a highly practical way, how staff in early years settings can implement simple changes to make positive behaviour a reality for all. The author, whose work is based on vast experience in the field, provides an array of positive beh ...Show more
Overcoming Difficulties with Number: Supporting Dyscalculia and Students Who Struggle with Maths by Ronit Bird
$90.00 NZD
Category: Education
'I have tried some of the activities with pairs in a whole class situation and they work very well, particularly with children struggling to remember facts through traditional methods (that are not always particularly successful with many) or with younger children learning to count and memorize number f ...Show more
Knowledge and Understanding of the World by Linda Cooper
$53.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
This is a complete guide to this area the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), promoting a holistic approach and drawing on examples of good practice. "Knowledge and Understanding of the World" introduces this area of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to trainee and qualified early years professio ...Show more
Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings: Nurturing Secure Relationships from Birth to Five Years by Veronica Read
$65.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
Early Years practitioners, like mothers and fathers to be, require a period of preparation before the arrival of a baby. Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings is about how you can help yourself to prepare for the care of individual babies and children in your settings. Without good attachm ...Show more
Learning Through Play by Jacqueline Duncan
$73.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
There is a growing and well-researched recognition of the need to develop the early-years curriculum and pedagogy though play-based learning. In addition, there is a well-established principle that teaching and learning should begin 'where the child is'. This book is centred around these two principles. ...Show more
An Encounter with Reggio Emilia by Linda Kinney
$95.00 NZD
Category: Early Childhood Education
The documentation of young children's learning plays a vital role in the pre-schools of Reggio Emilia. This leading edge approach to bringing record-keeping and assessment into the heart of young children's learning is envied and emulated by educators around the world. This unique, accessible and inspir ...Show more
Key Competencies for the Future by Rosemary Hipkins, Rachel Bolstad, Sally Boyd, Sue McDowall
$45.00 NZD
Category: Education
This book is an exhilarating journey into the set of ideas known as the key competencies. The authors employ creative zeal and the collective wisdom of more than a decade of research on the subject as they dig deep into what the key competencies mean and their purpose within the New Zealand Curriculum. ...Show more