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Early Years Policy and Practice [EPUB ebook] 
A Critical Alliance

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A comprehensive and up to date text for all those required to understand early years’ policy and practice. It provides a succinct insight into key elements of the national and international political, economic and social agendas that influence and affect young children’s lives, and the impact of these on early years’ professional practice and provision. It provides a critical examination of policy development and its application within an historical and international context. 

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Table of Content

Introduction to Critical Thinking


Introduction: Challenging misconceptions about policy and practice



  • The shaping of early years policy since 1900.

  • Family structures, status and public policy.

  • Cultural and social aspects of the health and wellbeing of young children.

  • The status and rights of young children as political and policy influencers.

  • Education and care for early learning and development.

  • Poverty as part of the early years’ experience.

  • The landscape of rural and urban living for young children.

  • Early years politics and economics on the international stage.



    • References

    • Index

    About the author

    Susan Waltham is a Senior Lecturer teaching on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School Of Education and Childhood at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her academic expertise is in child psychology and human development, diversity and equality. Her research is centred on identity construction in young children in multi-cultural, multi-linguistic settings. She also works as an independent consultant with organisations and early years settings in China, Pakistan and Malaysia. She was involved in developing a new school in Lahore, Pakistan that uses an emergent curriculum model for children of 3 to 12 years old. Currently she is working on introducing a play based curriculum to kindergartens (3 to 6 year-olds) in a number of cities in China. Susan has been a foster and adoptive parent for 31 years.
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    Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9781909330634 ● File size 5.0 MB ● Publisher Critical Publishing ● City Northwich ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2831241 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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