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Transforming Nursery Education by Peter Moss
Booksplease Price: £110.46`This is an important publication, which I urge colleagues to read and to consider carefully all the implications' - Early Years `... This provocative analysis with its clear examples is worth... -
Early Childhood and Compulsory Education: Reconceptualising the relationship by Peter Moss
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together?The rapid expansion of early childhood education and... -
Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance by Peter Moss
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care... -
Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education: Enhancing Attention and Moral Vision in Pedagogy Andrea Delaune 9781032886169
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99What relevance does the philosophy of Iris Murdoch have to offer to our understanding of early childhood education? In Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education, Andrea Delaune establishes the... -
Valuing Quality in Early Childhood Services: New Approaches to Defining Quality by Peter Moss
Booksplease Price: £110.46`Not only does this book offer a great deal of insight into evaluating early childhood services, it also provides a focal point for those interested in establishing goals, objectives and evaluation... -
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood by Peter Moss
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the... -
Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions by Peter Moss
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £74.59This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the... -
Making a Marque: Rolls-Royce Motor Car Promotion 1904-1940 by Peter Moss 9781854433107
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £83.81The promotional history of Rolls-Royce motor cars from the company's beginnings in 1904 to the outbreak of World War II has been exhaustively researched and documented in these pages. When Charles... -
Essential Skills for Dentists by Peter Mossey 9780198526193
Booksplease Price: £78.10This book is directed primarily at undergraduate dental students and the newly-qualified dentist but it will also be of value to medical and dental educationalists. In its concept and content it is... -
Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education: A story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality by Peter Moss 9780415656016
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate... -
Alternative Narratives in Early Childhood: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners Peter Moss (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) 9781138291553
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Challenging dominant discourses in the field of early childhood education, this book provides an accessible introduction to some of the alternative narratives and diverse perspectives that are... -
Slow Knowledge and the Unhurried Child: Time for Slow Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education by Alison Clark
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.43This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge. Alison Clark points to alternative practices in Early Childhood... -
Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education Maarit Alasuutari (the University of Tampere, Finland) 9780415661263
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Documentation in early childhood education is typically seen as a means to enhance the quality of care and education, and as a way to take account of the child's view. Assessment and Documentation in... -
Listening to Children: Being and becoming Bronwyn Davies 9781138780903
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Through a series of exquisite encounters with children, and through a lucid opening up of new aspects of poststructuralist theorizing, Bronwyn Davies opens up new ways of thinking about, and... -
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Languages of evaluation Gunilla Dahlberg 9780415820226
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields... -
Troubling the Changing Paradigms: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Early Childhood Reader, Volume IV Michael Peters (Beijing Normal University, China) 9780367232726
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of... -
Flows, Rhythms, and Intensities of Early Childhood Education Curriculum by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw 9781433108990
RRP: £31.65Booksplease Price: £29.49In this book, a group of researchers and educators consider in detail the possibilities and tensions of curriculum-making in early childhood education. The book discusses a wide range of issues... -
Flows, Rhythms, and Intensities of Early Childhood Education Curriculum by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw 9781433109003
RRP: £102.60Booksplease Price: £90.35In this book, a group of researchers and educators consider in detail the possibilities and tensions of curriculum-making in early childhood education. The book discusses a wide range of issues... -
Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions Sophie Mathieu 9781447338789
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.04This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the... -
Action Semantics by Peter D. Mosses 9780521619332
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79Action Semantics is a novel approach to the formal description of programming languages. Its abstractness is at an intermediate level, between that of denotational and operational semantics. Action... -
Care Work: Present and Future Janet Boddy 9780415347730
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more... -
The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: Early Childhood Education and Care by Anne Trine Kjorholt 9780230579323
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research,... -
Care Work in Europe: Current Understandings and Future Directions by Claire Cameron 9780415394475
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £88.07Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and... -
Care Work in Europe: Current Understandings and Future Directions by Claire Cameron
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and... -
A Care Manifesto for the Early Years: The Need for an Ethic of Care in Childcare Policy and Practice Zoe Raven 9781447377351
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.66Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis. A focus on education at the expense of care has... -
A Care Manifesto for the Early Years: The Need for an Ethic of Care in Childcare Policy and Practice Zoe Raven 9781447377368
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.07Amid increasing policy and funding pressures, and a dangerously overstretched workforce, the early years sector in the UK is facing a profound crisis. A focus on education at the expense of care has... -
Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition: A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach by Alison Clark
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.97Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing... -
Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: First International Conference, CALCO 2005, Swansea, UK, September 3-6, 2005, Proceedings by Jose Luiz Fiadeiro 9783540286202
Booksplease Price: £46.58In April 2004, after one year of intense debate, CMCS, the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science, and WADT, the Workshop on Al- braic Development Techniques, decided to... -
Working and Caring over the Twentieth Century: Change and Continuity in Four-Generation Families by Julia Brannen 9781403920591
Booksplease Price: £90.56Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or... -
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States: Comparing Care Policies and Practice by Gudny Bjork Eydal 9781447310471
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.10Fatherhood is in transition, as men try to balance being both active and involved fathers while meeting the demands of the workplace. This book explores these challenges in the context of... -
Learning to be Human: The Educational Legacy of John Macmurray by Michael Fielding
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The educational writings of John Macmurray, one of the finest 20th century philosophers of his generation, have a special relevance for us today. In similar circumstances of international crisis he... -
International Perspectives in the Early Years by Linda Miller
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £35.06'This informative and wide-ranging book argues persuasively for the value of multiple perspectives, both international and disciplinary, in the study and practice of early childhood education,... -
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States: Comparing Care Policies and Practice Gudny Bjoerk Eydal 9781447310488
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.84The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn... -
Right to Childhoods: Critical Perspectives on Rights, Difference and Knowledge in a Transient World by Dimitra Hartas 9781441176424
Booksplease Price: £40.38In this study, Dimitra Hartas analyses contemporary childhood. She discusses the plurality inherent in childhood and the forces that shape children's experience of growing up in the 21st century. She... -
The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market Sheila Kamerman 9781847429032
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.04With the growth of parental employment, leave policy is at the centre of welfare state development and at the heart of countries' child and family policies. It is widely recognised as an essential... -
The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market by Sheila B. Kamerman 9781847420671
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £70.10With the growth of parental employment, leave policy is at the centre of welfare state development and at the heart of countries' child and family policies. It is widely recognised as an essential... -
Managing Mothers: Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave Julia Brannen 9781032874906
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work... -
Managing Mothers: Dual Earner Households After Maternity Leave Julia Brannen 9781032874920
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49First published in 1991, Managing Mothers (now with a new preface by the authors) provides a detailed, authoritative inside story of the lives of parents, and particularly mothers, who return to work... -
Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education by Gunilla Dahlberg
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the 'Reggio approach', and others, this book explores the ethical and... -
Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education Michel Vandenbroeck (Ghent University, Belgium) 9781138214828
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in...