Early Childhood Matters

Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project
Herausgeber: Melhuish, Edward; Sylva, Kathy; Sammons, Pam

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Produktbeschreibung

Early Childhood Matters documents the rapid development of early years education and care from the late 1990s into the new millennium. It chronicles the unique contribution of the EPPE research to our understanding of the importance of pre-school. The Effective Pre-school and Primary Education (EPPE) project is the largest European study of the impact of early years education and care on children's developmental outcomes. Through this ground-breaking project a team of internationally-recognised experts provide insights into how home learning environments interact with pre-school and primary school experiences to shape children's progress. The findings of this fascinating project: provide new evidence of the importance of early childhood experiences show how these experiences influence children's cognitive, social and behavioural development give new insights on the importance of early years education will be relevant to a wide audience who are interested in policy development, early years education and care, and 'effectiveness' research examine how the combined effects of pre-school, primary school and the family interact to shape children's educational outcomes. This insightful book is essential reading for all those interested in innovative research methodology and policy development in early childhood education and care. It provides new evidence on good practice in early years settings and will have a wide appeal for students and those engaged in providing accredited courses of study at a range of levels in early childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780415482431
• ISBN-10: 0415482437
• Artikelnr.: 26879591

Autorenporträt

Kathy Sylva is Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Oxford. Edward Melhuish is Professor of Human Development, Birkbeck College, University of London. Pam Sammons is Professor of Education, University of Oxford. Iram Siraj-Blatchford is Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of London. Brenda Taggart is Senior Research Officer, Institute of Education, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Why EPPE? Kathy Sylva and the
EPPE Team Chapter 2 The EPPE settings in the context of English pre-schools
Iram Siraj-Blatchford Chapter 3 The EPPE Research design: An educational
effectiveness focus Pam Sammons Chapter 4 Why children, parents and home
learning are important Edward Melhuish Chapter 5 Quality in Early Childhood
settings Kathy Sylva Chapter 6 Does pre-school make a difference?: Results
over the pre-school period (to aged 5) Pam Sammons Chapter 7 Do the
benefits of pre-school last? Investigating pupil outcomes to the end of Key
Stage 2 (aged 11) Pam Sammons Chapter 8 A focus on pedagogy: Case studies
of effective practice Iram Siraj-Blatchford Chapter 9 Vulnerable children:
Identifying children 'at risk' Brenda Taggart Chapter 10 A linked study:
Effective Pre-school Provision in Northern Ireland Edward Melhuish Chapter
11 Making a difference: How research can inform policy Brenda Taggart
Chapter 12 Re-thinking the evidence-base for Early Years policy and
practice Kathy Sylva Glossary of terms Appendix 1 How children were
assessed at different time points throughout the study Appendix 2 The Home
Learning Environment at different time points Appendix 3 The EPPE Technical
Papers Appendix 4 Social/behavioural dimensions at different time points
(items associated with dimensions) Appendix 5 The Multiple Disadvantage
Index Appendix 6 Results from analyses of pre-school effects compared with
those of family income and parents' employment status