Early Childhood Studies: Enhancing Employability and Professional Practice
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Overview
Early Childhood Studies: Enhancing Employability and Professional Practice explores essential aspects of best practice within children’s services in order to enhance employability skills, identifying how and why key aspects of best practice have emerged within children’s services. The key elements of professional practice at the centre of the multidisciplinary work in today’s children’s services are considered, including:
• different childhoods;
• child development;
• enhanced learning;
• professional skills;
• inclusion;
• holistic practice.
Each chapter draws together practical teaching experience with sound academic analysis to support those training to work in the early childhood sector, and those already practising, to raise their employability potential by identifying and evaluating best practice.
Supports current and future children’s practitioners to develop employability skills by identifying and reflecting on best practice.
Unique in that it explores how ‘best practice’ has emerged in all areas of work with children
Practical approach allows students and practitioners to identify ‘best practice’ and to learn from examples
Explores the development of ‘best practice’ across all key areas of professional practice with children
Emphasis on ‘best practice’ helps raise the employability level of current and future children’s practitioners
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Different Childhoods and Best Practice
2. Raising Awareness of the Developing Child and Best Practice
3. Best Practice and Enhancing Learning
4. Enhancing Best Practice through Professional Skills
5. Inclusion and its Emergence as a Key Aspect of Best Practice
6. The Rising Importance of Holistic Practice in Early Childhood Studies
Conclusion
Answers
References
Index
This book is a most welcome addition in the field of Early Childhood Studies. The key features of inclusion, enhancing learning, holistic therapies, the developing child and professionalism are both explored sensitively and reflexively examined in relation to how best to address children’s differing individual needs.
The work of early childhood professionals is essential if we are to ensure that all children have the opportunity to experience quality services at this critical time in their lives. Early Childhood Studies: Enhancing Employability and Professional Practice interrogates the key aspects of the professional lives of early childhood educators. The authors have taken a practical approach to a consideration of exemplary teaching and learning practices in the early years. They explore the elements that constitute effective care and education in a holistic way that recognizes the complexity of the professional role of the educators as they strive to provide the best early childhood services for young children.
- Title: Early Childhood Studies: Enhancing Employability and Professional Practice
- Authors: Ewan Ingleby, Geraldine Oliver, Rita Winstone
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472506337, 9781472506825, 1472506820, 1472506332
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472506337
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T10:17:35Z
Ewan Ingleby is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK. Ewan is the school's postgraduate tutor and chair and co-convenor of the education work based learning research unit. Ewan teaches on the Early Childhood Studies BA, the MA in Education and the Education Doctorate.
Geraldine Oliver was Programme Leader for Early Childhood Studies from 2006-2011 at Teesside University, UK, and taught in a range of early years settings before her retirement in 2011.
Rita Winstone is Senior Lecturer in Education at Teesside University, UK, where she is Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies.