Student Resources
The Undergraduate Journey
Reflective Practice
The Ethical Practitioner with Children and Families
Critical Thinking
ICT and Learning for Students
Deliberating on Practices with Young Children in the United States
'Vygotsky Rocks!' An Argument That Helps Use Lev Vygotsky's Ideas in Early Years Practice
The Developing Child: Some Critical Perspectives
Play and Creativity: How Important Is This in Terms of the Developing Child?
Repositioning Developmentalism
Security and Attachment
Developing Child in Society
Taking a Holistic View: Critically Examining Complex Professional Issues
The Language of Special Educational Needs: Learning from the Past to Build the Future
Supporting Children with Complex Health Needs and Life-Limiting Conditions and Their Families
Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway?
Approaches to the Early Years Curriculum: A Critical View from Wales
Parental Involvement and Partnership with Parents: "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"
Supporting Parents
Policy into Practice: Implementing the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia from a Western Australian Perspective
Professional Roles and Responsibilities: Professional Practice and Early Childhood Today
Integrated Working in Practice: Why Don't Professionals Talk to Each Other?
Children's Developing Identity
Assessment: A Critical Companion to Early Childhood Pedagogy
The Responsibility of the Practice-Based Researcher
Bonus podcasts
'About to start a placement or a job in the early years? Listen to the podcasts below for helpful advice from the contributors of the book:
1. What advice would you give to a student about to start an early years placement?
Video Links
These video links about early childhood topics and ideas have been carefully selected from around the web:
Presentation: Stuart Brown
A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humour, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults – and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.
Free Critical Reading Chapters
Here you’ll find free access to selected chapters on critical writing from SAGE titles:
Critical Learning Activities
Here you’ll find two examples of the Critical Learning Activities provided in the textbook.
