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  • Early Childhood Pedagogical Play

    A Cultural-Historical Interpretation Using Visual Methodology

    by Avis Ridgway, Liang Li, Gloria Quiñones ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book re-theorizes the relationship between pedagogy and play. The authors suggest that pedagogical play is characterized by conceptual reciprocity (a pedagogical approach for supporting children’s academic learning through joint play) and agentic imagination (a concept that when present in play, affords the child’s motives and imagination a critical role in learning and development). These ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Affective Early Childhood Pedagogy for Infant-Toddlers

    by Gloria Quiñones, Liang Li, Avis Ridgway ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This exciting new book brings fresh knowledge of affective pedagogies in early childhood education and care. The book draws on cultural-historical theory in alignment with visual methodologies to elucidate infant-toddlers’ affective pedagogies through analysis of case examples. The book reveals contemporary pedagogical practices in the infant-toddler space like mealtimes, nappy change and play. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Peer Play and Relationships in Early Childhood

    International Research Perspectives

    Edited by Avis Ridgway, Gloria Quiñones, Liang Li ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a rich collection of international research narratives that reveal the qualities and value of peer play. It presents new understandings of peer play and relationships in chapters drawn from richly varied contexts that involve sibling play, collaborative peer play, and joint play with adults. The book explores social strategies such as cooperation, negotiation, playing with rules, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Studying Babies and Toddlers

    Relationships in Cultural Contexts

    Edited by Liang Li, Gloria Quiñones, Avis Ridgway ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world. As such, the book offers a truly diverse, international flavour reflecting a broad range of research on babies and toddlers. Examining examples from both Eastern and Western cultures, the book’s overarching focus is on relationships, yielding a coherence beneficial to early childhood researchers and educators ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Visual Methodologies and Digital Tools for Researching with Young Children

    Transforming Visuality

    Edited by Marilyn Fleer, Avis Ridgway ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book makes an original contribution to researching child-community development so that those with specific interests in early childhood education have new theoretical tools to guide their research practices. The book explicitly theorises the use of digital visual tools from a cultural-historical perspective. It also draws upon a range of post-structuralist concepts for moving research and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

    by Garold MURRAY, Xuesong GAO and Terry LAMB ...
    In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Play as Engagement and Communication

    Edited by Eva E. Nwokah ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises, and in-depth reviews of current knowledge on child-child, child-adult, and child-animal play. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Lived Spaces of Infant-Toddler Education and Care

    Exploring Diverse Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice

    Edited by Jennifer Sumsion, Linda J. Harrison ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book conceptualizes the ‘lived spaces’ of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors researching within diverse theoretical frameworks. It highlights diverse ways of understanding the experiences of very young children by exposing the ways that the authors are grappling with the unknown. The work explores broadly the construct and meanings ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Motivation

    Looking Back, Looking Forward

    Edited by Dennis M. McInerney, Richard A. Walker, Gregory Arief D. Liem ...
    Series series Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning
    It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts. Since that time significant advances have been made in sociocultural theory and research. Various sociocultural approaches to the understanding of learning (for example, sociocultural psychology, sociocultural discourse, cultural ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

    A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

    by Peter Lehmann, PhD, LCSW ...
    Series series Springer Series on Social Work
    " Praise for the first editionFinally, a social work practice text that makes a difference! This is the book that you have wished for but could never find. Although similar to texts that cover a range of practice theories and approaches to clinical practice, this book clearly has a social work frame of reference and a social work identity.--Gayla Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD

  • Play in the Early Years

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Play is crucial to the learning and development of children in the early years. The third edition of Play in the Early Years is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to 8 years old. Drawing on classical and contemporary theories, this text examines social, cultural and institutional approaches to play, and explores a range of strategies for ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

    Applying the Scientific Evidence

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer ...
    We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong counterargument to the rising tide of didactic instruction on ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD