Introducing Bruner, Smidt

In this accessible and engaging text, Sandra Smidt examines how Malaguzzi's philosophy developed out of his personal experiences of growing up in post-fascist Italy. His ideas are explored and illustrated throughout by examples relating to everyday early years practice. The key themes explored include:

• relationships -- the importance of relationships, culture and contexts to learning within any setting and beyond;
• transparency -- the importance of listening and documentation to understanding and sharing learning;
• questioning -- inviting children to not only answer questions but raise them, allowing them to be equal partners in all learning situations;
• creativity -- finding ways of enabling children to use all the expressive languages they can find to express and share their ideas;
• equity and fairness -- involving the community in all decision-making and discussions, to ensure that early childhood education is accessible and relevant to all children.　

This book will be of benefit to all those working with young children and essential reading for students on early childhood education programmes.

Introducing Dialogic Pedagogy　presents some of the ideas of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin concerning dialogism in a way that will engage and inspire those studying early childhood education. By translating the growing body of dialogic scholarship into a practical application of teaching and learning with very young children,　this book provides　 readers with alternative ways of examining, engaging and reflecting on practice in the early years to provoke new ways of understanding and enacting pedagogy.

This text combines important theoretical ideas with a practical application to support practitioners who are keen to promote creativity and agency through ethical self-other relations.　 It provides unique insights into the amazing world of the youngest child, and offers enriched understandings of the profound impact of adults in their journey of becoming (or bildung).　

Key points covered include:

• Investigating dialogic philosophy and its application to early childhood education, with an emphasis on notions of 　justice, democracy, ethics and answerability
• Considering the relationship between dialogism and pedagogical approaches
• Theorising a range of approaches to relevant early childhood practice, as pedagogy

This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with practical suggestions for early years' settings. The book is supplemented by an extensive online video resource website that will bring these revolutionary ideas to life.

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Introducing Dialogic Pedagogy　presents some of the ideas of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin concerning dialogism in a way that will engage and inspire those studying early childhood education. By translating the growing body of dialogic scholarship into a practical application of teaching and learning with very young children,　this book provides　 readers with alternative ways of examining, engaging and reflecting on practice in the early years to provoke new ways of understanding and enacting pedagogy.

This text combines important theoretical ideas with a practical application to support practitioners who are keen to promote creativity and agency through ethical self-other relations.　 It provides unique insights into the amazing world of the youngest child, and offers enriched understandings of the profound impact of adults in their journey of becoming (or bildung).　

Key points covered include:

• Investigating dialogic philosophy and its application to early childhood education, with an emphasis on notions of 　justice, democracy, ethics and answerability
• Considering the relationship between dialogism and pedagogical approaches
• Theorising a range of approaches to relevant early childhood practice, as pedagogy

This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with practical suggestions for early years' settings. The book is supplemented by an extensive online video resource website that will bring these revolutionary ideas to life.

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Areas covered in Introducing Piaget include:

• key milestones and achievements in children's thinking;
• understanding the physical world through senses and movement in infancy;
• supporting the emergence of symbolic thought and language in the early years;
• understanding object permanence;
• implications of egocentric thinking in early childhood learning and development.

Throughout the book, the consequences of these developments for children's social, emotional and intellectual development are discussed. Updates on Piaget's theory are also outlined with reference to more recent work on cognitive development in childhood. Each chapter provides a concise summary of material presented through a consideration of the implications for practice in working with children. A glossary of key Piagetian terms is also included. With a particular focus on how Piaget's principles and concepts can be applied to children in early childhood, this exciting new book is an invaluable resource for teachers, practitioners and students with an interest in learning and development in the early years.