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Exploring: Child Development from 3 to 6 Years, 2nd Edition | AU/NZ

Dianne Nixon, Maree Aldwinckle

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Exploring: Child Development from 3 to 6 Years 2nd Edition by Dianne Nixon/Maree Aldwinckle

Overview

Exploring: Child Development from Three to Six Years has been updated to incorporate current findings in this important area of human development. It is a practical text aimed at students studying child development at TAFE or other relevant tertiary courses, those caring for children in a centre, mobile or home-based setting, and those interested in finding out more about this age group. It follows on from Emerging: Child Development in the First Three Years, second edition.

The authors have combined their experiences of working, studying and teaching to provide a readable and comprehensive text focusing on the links between theory and practice in this area.

The text is divided into chapters covering the main developmental domains: physical, cognitive, social-emotional and language. Specialist background chapters focus on influential theorists and research, inclusion of children with additional needs, the role of play, and curricula implications of theories and research.

Dianne Nixon

Dianne Nixon has qualifications and experience in both social work and early childhood education, and has been a consultant in the child and family welfare sector. Dianne taught in TAFE NSW for many years. with on-campus and distance learners, and has been involved in curriculum and resource development for the childcare industry. She also has a long-term involvement and commitment to the provision of services to families through her work with State and non-Government organisations. Dianne is the co-author of the two previous books in this child development series.

Maree Aldwinckle

  • Each chapter has been revised or expanded to include up-to-date information in relation to current trends, issues and thinking about early childhood development and learning.
  • Additional coverage of the following topical areas has been included: The revised QIAS and the National Childcare Competencies, New ideas about programming and children's learning, Current research about transition to school, Implications of brain development research, New information about children's understandings of war and peace. Current Australian findings on obesity, Expansion of creative skills information, Updated information on TV/computers and their effects on young children, play and literacy development, Strength-based perspective in working with children with disabilities.
  • Useful websites and references are included to allow students to further develop their knowledge in accordance to their needs and interests.
  • Boxed practical examples throughout the chapters give students ideas that they can easily put into practice themselves.
  • Summaries at the end of each chapter that help students identify the key concepts that have been covered.
  • Activities at the end of each chapter that encourage group discussion and enable students to put the theory they have just learnt into practice.
Introduction
1. Theories and beliefs about child development
2. Physical development
3. Social-emotional development
4. What is play
5. Cognitive development
6. Language development
7. Inclusion of children with additional needs
8. Transition to school
9. Approaches to programming
10. Observing and Recording: Checklists
References
Index

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  • ISBN-10: 0170180174
  • ISBN-13: 9780170180177
  • RETAIL $102.95