Understanding Early Childhood is a comprehensive textbook which
offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes
on the ways in which we understand and study young children.
Engaging and clear, it provides students with a user-friendly
introduction to a number of difficult concepts and theories in
early childhood education, drawing on research evidence from
various countries and taking an interdisciplinary approach.Revised
and updated throughout, the third edition brings contemporary
theories and debates bang up-to-date in a concise, accessible and
yet reflective style. Unique features include: A substantial and
critically informed discussion of child development An updated
overview of theoretical approaches and research methodologies
Considerable revisions on neuroscience and genetic research in
light of recent developments Extended coverage of ethicsThe
challenges and problematic nature of interdisciplinary working'Main
Messages' provide helpful summaries of key points'What to Read
Next' signposts stimulating reading Understanding Early Childhood
is an indispensable resource for early childhood students from
undergraduate to postgraduate level, and practitioners working with
young children."Understanding Early Childhood draws on Helen Penn's
deep knowledge and exceptionally wide breadth of experience of this
topic. This new and updated edition with its pithy explanations
provides an invaluable and readable guide to concepts and theories
of early childhood education." Bronwen J. Cohen, School of Social
and Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh, UK "This
updated and revised third edition is informative and thought
provoking appealing to an international readership. Drawing from
many fields of study and with reference to her own international
experience and research, Professor Penn challenges existing
normative conceptualisations of childhood and professional
practice, standards and expectations. She takes a critical stance
urging practitioners who take seriously their profession to explore
the 'many kinds of ideas about how the world is understood and what
the place and status of young children is within it'. The book is
highly recommended as an important reading for all early childhood
practitioners, students and researchers." Theodora Papatheodorou,
Education Adviser - Early Childhood Care and Development, Save the
Children, UK"This book is a must read for anyone studying or
working in early childhood education. Penn has the measure of early
childhood education, its nemesis and its mainstay, developmental
psychology, as well as key issues, contestations and assumptions
that characterize the field. The messages are applicable and have
resonance across borders and boundaries, majority and minority
worlds, and ethnicities. While written originally for undergraduate
students, the challenges are for all, from those with the most
expertise and experience, to the least." Sue Grieshaber, Chair
Professor and Head, Department of Early Childhood Education, Hong
Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong "This (updated) book
provides a stunning panorama of issues in early childhood that
should really matter to everyone in the field. The writerly style
invites readers to engage in a conversation, to be imaginative and
thoughtful, to reminiscence, to explore and to grow in criticality.
Helen Penn ranges expertly and accessibly across the biggest
questions for the field and illustrates how these become manifest
or suppressed in folklore, education, research, politics, and
practice. Whatever your interest in early childhood, this book
should become a wise companion to whom you turn again and again for
inspiration, intellectual challenge or solace. I've really enjoyed
reading the new edition of Helen's book. She is such a superb
author and scholar and we are incredibly fortunate to have her
working in the field of early childhood." Dr Sacha Powell, Reader
in Early Childhood, Research Centre for Children, Families and
Communities, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
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