TY - BOOK AU - Edwards,Anne AU - Knight,Peter ED - Askews & Holts TI - Effective early years education: teaching young children SN - 9780335231485 (e-book) AV - LB1139.23 .E37 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Buckingham PB - Open University Press KW - Early childhood education KW - Elementary school teaching KW - Effective teaching KW - Curricula KW - Education KW - ukslc KW - thema KW - Curriculum planning & development KW - Pre-school & kindergarten KW - Primary & middle schools KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-163) and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780335191888; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web N2 - Offers solutions to complex issues that early years educators face. This book provides frameworks for an understanding of the practice of teaching young children and draws upon research to offer a model of early years subject-structured teaching. It supports teacher expertise through stimulating teachers' thinking about children's development; In this concise and accessible guide, the authors are sympathetic to the particular demands of teaching three to eight year olds and offer practical solutions to the complex issues that are currently faced by early years educators. In recognizing the demands on practitioners, they provide new and challenging frameworks for an understanding of the practice of teaching young children and draw upon international research to offer a sound model of early years subject-structured teaching which has the quality of children's learning at its centre. Their aim is to support teacher expertise through stimulating teachers' thinking about children's development, motivation, ways of learning and the subjects they teach. These topics are clearly set in the complex institutional settings in which practitioners work and ways of taking and evaluating action are offered UR - http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=BradfordC&isbn=9780335231485 ER -