Child Development

Name: Child Development
SKU: TS0301
Price: 49.95 AUD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781925145281

The developing child, communicating skilfully, and nurturing competent learners

Babies and children develop in individual ways at varying rates. Every area of development - physical, cognitive, linguistic, spiritual, social and emotional - is equally important. Child Development focuses on three key areas of the developing child, the child as a skilful communicator and, the child as competent learner. It covers key issues such as the impact of nature and nurture on children's development, factors which put development at risk and which support children's development, and the effect of emotional wellbeing and cultural influences on young children's development. Each section includes case studies, checklists for monitoring practice, ideas for developing effective practice, insights into related theories and research and points for reflection or discussion.

Ages: 0-5 | Pages: 80 | Code: TS0301 | ISBN: 9781925145281

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Nicole Halton

Nicole Halton – Co-founder/director of Inspired EC and educational consultant
Nicole Halton has been a proud member and advocate of the early childhood profession for over 13 years. Nicole is particularly passionate about the provision of quality early childhood services and children having the right to a childhood filled with risk, adventure and fun.

From 2005 to 2012, Nicole was the director of Woodrising Community Preschool and Child Care Centre, a service that has developed a strong reputation for its commitment to natural play environments and authentic experiences for children. During her leadership the centre was one of the first services to be assessed under the National Quality Standards and achieved the rating of 'Exceeding'.

In 2007 Nicole and her business partner Natashja Treveton spent countless hours discussing the need for inspiring professional development in their local area and, as a result, founded their educational training and consultancy business, Inspired EC. Their passion and enthusiasm in their beliefs have allowed the company as well as the services they offer to develop and expand and to ‘inspire’ thousands of educators Australia wide.

Linda Pound

Linda Pound is an experienced educator and author who has worked in all sectors of education, including tertiary, but whose passion is work with young children and their families. She has been head of a nursery school and deputy head of a primary school, and has also run both foundation and honours degree programmes on early childhood studies.

Contents
Acknowledgements	4
Introduction	5
1. The developing child	7
Historical understandings of child development	7
Current views of child development	9
Key milestones in thinking and development	16
Risk and resilience	26
Measuring progress?	26
Enabling environments	28
2. A skilful communicator	38
The importance of communication	38
Born communicators	39
15 golden rules for communicating effectively with children	43
Enabling environments	48
Communication-friendly spaces for bilingual and multilingual learners	52
Challenges and dilemmas	53
Improving practice in a supported playgroup	54
3. A competent learner	57
What is learning?	57
Learning and the brain	58
Learning to move	62
Exploring	64
Playing	66
Active learning	68
Creating	70
Thinking critically	71
Enabling environments	73
Singing from the same song sheet?	75
Bringing it all together	78
References	79