CYP Now - Resources: Review - A beginners' guide to the early years

Essential Early Years gives an overview of the core subject areas that are most commonly studied on early years degree courses. It is aimed at practitioners and those wanting to improve their skills and achieve further qualifications.

The book covers: personal and learning skills; curriculum issues throughto age eight, including language, literacy and information technology;special needs; child protection; and health.

Since it is pitched at further education, foundation degree and firstyear undergraduate level, the discussions in the book are verystraightforward and basic but the authors assume some practical skillsand knowledge.

And because it is mainly aimed at foundation degree students, educationissues are more strongly represented than other topics.

This book would be less appropriate for use at a more advanced levelsince there are deliberately simplified accounts of many issues. Forexample, it does not discuss doing research or, perhaps moreimportantly, evaluating research. "Evidence-based policy" is a bit of acatchword these days.

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