An ABC of Early Childhood Education: A Guide to Some of the Key Issues

This book examines how young children learn. It explores classical and contemporary ideas about how this occurs. It is arranged alphabetically by key concepts, which are sometimes followed by concepts that are less important and which the author calls sub-concepts. These are followed, generally, by a section called Synonymous with which lists other terms, most of which do not have an entry in this book. Then there is often a table of words or concepts connected to the key concept, with their meaning and why the word/concept matters. This is followed by the body of the text that usually has...