This Research in Practice Series title explores:
Planning for children’s earliest experiences must place the infant at the centre to build a foundation that truly supports all future living and learning. This Research in Practice Series book invites educators and families to read, respond to and plan for babies’ learning and development. It helps readers to discover how our youngest participants develop relationships, feel safe and become confident learners.
This book draws on research to explain how to connect with babies through:
- building relationships with babies
- observing and responding to babies
- supporting babies in the context of their families
- planning infant-focused and relationship-based programs
- planning for play-based learning and intentionality.
Case studies highlight the importance of early attachment, why social referencing matters, how to facilitate interactions where joint attention is supported, and where imitation and turn-taking occur. These practices support early ‘conversations’ with infants and show how educators can respect infants by listening, sensitively responding and simply enjoying playful moments together.
This book places special emphasis on helping babies to get the most out of early childhood education and care settings and on babies’ intentional play. Games for babies are suggested, alongside explanations about how these games support infant development.
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Your child from birth to eight provides a practical guide to the physical, emotional, social and cognitive development of young children, with a focus on fostering the bond between parent and child. While children develop differently in accordance with their genetic inheritance and environment, Pam Linke, renowned social worker and early childhood expert, clearly defines the steps which help parents to know what milestones children can be expected to reach, at different ages and stages and how best to support their learning.
This fully revised and updated edition draws on contemporary research and provides insights into what is happening to children and why they may do what they do. An invaluable resource for all parents and carers, Your Child from Birth to Eight encapsulates the wisdom and experience of other mums and dads, as well as social workers, health professionals, early childhood practitioners and teachers who engage regularly with children from birth to eight.
Difficulties are a part of everyone’s life. How we respond to them enhances or undermines our coping skills and resilience. Difficulties can be as small as a change in situation or routine, or as large as losing someone close to us. The situations and events that are hard for infants and young children are often very different from those that are hard for adults.
This book is about:
- understanding stress in infants and young children
- recognising the signs of stress in infancy and early childhood
- responding in ways that support children’s developing sense of security, agency and confidence.
It takes a developmental approach, discussing likely stressors at different stages of development, while acknowledging the importance of individual children’s experience and context. It highlights strategies for educators to cope with everyday stresses, and provides guidance in supporting children who are exposed to more serious and damaging stressful events in their lives.
This book also includes a section for adults, introducing some responses to situations and questions from children that can be challenging. The main message is that infants and young children respond to stress in different ways, many through behaviour changes; and that it is important for children to have an appropriate and supportive response from the adults in their lives, in order to overcome present difficulties, to use their abilities for learning and development rather than reacting to anxiety and trauma, and to develop skills that will stand them in good stead in the future.
About the Research in Practice Series:
The Research in Practice Series is a practical, easy-to-read resource, offering effective new approaches for those challenging issues which arise in the care and education of young children. Each issue explores current and emerging research on a specialised topic within early childhood education and care and translates it into practical case studies, ideas and strategies for modern pedagogical practices.
ECA Digital Library is your all-in-one subscription offering greater flexibility, more content, and a seamless digital experience. Including flipbook versions of the Research in Practice and Everyday Learning Series titles and accompanying downloadable resources subscribe to ensure all your professional learning needs are met.
This Everyday Learning Series title explores:
- safe sleep practices
- tummy time
- communication with parents/carers
- settling babies
- sleep cues, comforters, associations and rituals
- sleep challenges.
About the Everyday Learning Series:
Early Childhood Australia’s Everyday Learning Series acknowledges that the most important early learning happens through day-to-day life experiences and provides ideas and strategies on ways educators and families can make the most of these experiences to support children’s development. By ‘making the ordinary, extraordinary’, the Everyday Learning Series is an invaluable resource for educators, students of early education, beginning practitioners, and families by assisting them in maximising young children’s play, exploration and discovery, and development within learning environments.
ECA Digital Library is your all-in-one subscription offering greater flexibility, more content, and a seamless digital experience. Including flipbook versions of the Research in Practice and Everyday Learning Series titles and accompanying downloadable resources subscribe to ensure all your professional learning needs are met.
The ECA Professional Learning Bundles are designed as blended, flexible and self-paced professional learning packages that can be utilised by individuals or teams. Publications can be shared with families and across educator’s teams, webcasts can be viewed with whole teams in staff meetings and online learning modules can be utilised by individual educators. Once purchased services will have access to the online learning for 12 months and will also gain access to the ECA Learning Management System (LMS) to track professional learning and download or print completion certificates. Publications are the services to keep and can be revisited over and over supporting learning and building understanding over time.
The ECA Professional Learning Bundles are designed as blended, flexible and self-paced professional learning packages that can be utilised by individuals or teams. Publications can be shared with families and across educator’s teams, webcasts can be viewed with whole teams in staff meetings and online learning modules can be utilised by individual educators. Once purchased services will have access to the online learning for 12 months and will also gain access to the ECA Learning Management System (LMS) to track professional learning and download or print completion certificates. Publications are the services to keep and can be revisited over and over supporting learning and building understanding over time.
