Margaret M Clark

Understanding Research in Early Education

The Relevance for the Future of Lessons from the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

In this newly revised edition of Understanding Research in Early Education , Margaret Clark demonstrates the continuing relevance of research in the homes of young children and in preschool units. Through rigorous yet understandable language, the text stresses the importance of research, acknowledging how easy it can be, amidst the change and flood of documents on early education and care, to overlook the insights to be gained from past research. The author draws on her own studies, and those of others, to illustrate how to avoid common pitfalls, ask the right questions to inform students' research projects, and critically apply findings in the classroom or nursery. The book is one of the few texts for students to bring research alive, analysing key research to consider its limitations and the extent to which results are relevant to policy and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138634831
• ISBN-10: 1138634832
• Artikelnr.: 48743927

Autorenporträt

Margaret M. Clark OBE has an international reputation for research in early education and literacy. She is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor at Newman University, Birmingham. Margaret holds an OBE for services to early childhood education. She has recently published Learning to be Literate 2016 (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

About the author Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction Part I Language
and the homes of young children 2. The language of young children: the
continuing relevance of the issues from the 1970s 3. Research evidence on
language and the homes of young children: look back and looking forward
Part II Research in preschool units: what lessons can we learn? 4.
Researches in early education set in context 5. Studies of preschool
education in Scotland: lessons from the past 6. Language and interaction in
preschool units in England: looking back and looking forward Part III
Continuity, communication and learning in early education 7. Research
studies on transition and continuity in early education: lessons from the
past 8. Communication in the early education of children from different
ethnic backgrounds: part I of a DES-funded study 9. Reception classrooms as
contexts for learning: part II of a DES-funded study 10. Baseline and
readiness assessments of young children on starting primary school: where
now? Part IV Two contrasting researches on learning to read: different aims
so different designs 11. Reading and learning to read: setting the scene
12. Children wtih difficulties and young fluent readers: two contrasting
research approaches 13. Better beginnings