Early Childhood Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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Fully updated in its 2nd edition, this comprehensive and accessible book is a one-stop introductory text for those entering the field of early childhood studies and early years. Scholarly, and engagingly written, it covers all the key contemporary debates from child development, language acquisition and play to professional practice, health and wellbeing and diversity and inclusion. The new edition includes two new chapters on fostering creativity and sustainability. It covers the urgent post-pandemic need for early childhood practitioners to lead the remedial work for the 2020 generation of babies who lost valuable socialisation opportunities and includes discussion of the current schoolification of early childhood and the pursuit of data as a driver of education and care provision. It also examines the impact of health and income inequalities, Covid-19, global neoliberal policies and Brexit on the early childhood landscape. An excellent all rounder, it covers everything a student of early childhood will need. Each of the eighteen chapters has at least one global case study, and includes reflective exercises, topics for discussion, assignments and further reading lists. Throughout the book, vital connections are made between theory and practice to help students prepare for a career working with a diverse community of children, parents and professionals.

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[1st edition] If you can only afford one book on early childhood, it has to be this one. Early Childhood Studies provides a compelling and comprehensive introduction in this field. Engagingly accessible as a textbook, yet effortlessly scholarly, this volume is essential reading and a must-have companion for all with an interest in understanding early childhood in contemporary times. * Mary Jane Kehily, Professor of Gender and Education, The Open University, UK *
[1st edition] This is a fully comprehensive examination of childhood. It will make an excellent core textbook for students of Early Childhood Studies; they will find it interesting, easy to read and informative. I would be proud to have written it myself. * Penny Farrelly, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Society and Health, Bucks New University, UK *

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Jenny Willan (ne Gubb) is the author of Early Childhood Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach (1st edition, 2017). She was previously Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Plymouth, UK, and Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the National Foundation for Educational Research, UK.