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Brand new resources for Level 2 provide complete coverage of the new Children’s Workforce qualifications so you can be sure that you are fully supported to make a difference to the lives of the children in your care.
Brand new resources for Level 3 provide complete coverage of the new Children's Workforce qualifications so you can be sure that you and your learners are fully supported to make a difference to the lives of the children in your care.
This textbook takes an assessment-focused approach to the 2010 specification, clearly presenting information to students on what they need to know and what they need to be able to do to acheive the qualification.
LEVEL 3 DIPLOMA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKFORCE seeks to provide a comprehensive and economical learner support guide for anyone undertaking this qualification. The resource includes up-to-date information relevant to child safeguarding, and also a large number of optional units required for childcare practitioners working in not just early years settings, but also residential. The sections included in the book are as follows: SECTION 1: SHARED CORE UNITS. Chapter 1: Communication; Chapter 2: Promote Equality and Inclusion; Chapter 3: Engage in Personal Development; Chapter 4: Implementing Duty of Care. SECTION 2: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S MANDATORY UNITS: Chapter 5: Understand Child and Young People's Development; Chapter 6: Promote Child and Young Person Development; Chapter 7: Promote the Safeguarding and Well-being of Children; Chapter 8: Supporting Health and Safety of Children and Young People; Chapter 9: Developing Positive Relationships; Chapter 10: Working Collaboratively. SECTION 3: Early Year's Pathway Units: Chapter 12: Context and Principles for Early Years Provision; Chapter 13: Promote Development and Learning in Babies and Young Children; Chapter 14: Promote Children's Welfare & Well-Being in the Early Years Sector; Chapter 15: Promote Professional Practice in Early Years Settings; Chapter 16: Support Children's Speech, Language and Communication; Chapter 17: Work with Babies and Young Children to Promote their Development and Learning; Chapter 18: Care for the Physical and Nutritional Needs of Babies and Young Children; Chapter 19: Promote Physical Activity and Movement Skills of Young Children; Chapter 20: Understand How to Set up a Home-Based Childcare Service. SECTION 4: OTHER OPTIONAL UNITS: Chapter 21: Promote Creativity and Creative Learning in Young Children; Chapter 22: Professional Practice in Children and Young People; Chapter 23: Assessment and Planning; Chapter 24: Supporting Disabled Children and Young People and those with Specific Requirements; Chapter 25: Working with Children and Young People in a Residential Care Setting.
This text covers all mandatory units and a good selection of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. Engaging case studies, activities and photos give a real flavour of working in childcare and help learners relate theory to good practice.
This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010. Subtitled ‘Conversations for Transformational Change’, the collection focuses on both ongoing and new discourses that enable us to advance thinking and practice to better understand what it means for participation to be transformational. Featuring all new content, it explores the developments that have been achieved in theory and practice in the last decade as well as the challenges and, indeed, the limitations of dominant participation approaches with children and young people in achieving genuine societal transformation. A key feature of the Handbook is the inclusion of young people as co-authors in many of the chapters. Foregrounding aspects of participation as experienced by diverse groups of children and young people, the book especially illuminates the experiences and perspectives of participation relating to groups of children who face particular challenges, such as displaced children and children living with disabilities and young people from indigenous groups in a range of contexts. The broad spectrum of debates that the text covers will be invaluable in challenging and transforming thinking and practice for a wide range of scholars, practitioners, activists and young people themselves. It will additionally be suitable for use on a wide range of courses including childhood and youth studies, sociology, law, political studies, community development, development studies, children’s rights, citizenship studies, education and social work.
This text covers all mandatory units and a good selection of optional units to provide the information learners need to succeed. Engaging case studies, activities and photos give a real flavour of working in childcare and help learners relate theory to good practice.
Written by a highly experienced and respected author team, this book focuses on the knowledge you will need in order to obtain the qualification, and will support you through your assessment and the start of your career.
Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice, training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory, Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle, supported by recent research, and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context. The book investigates the understandings of the Play Cycle within the playwork field over the last 20 years, and its future application. It addresses each aspect of the Play Cycle (metalude, play cue, play return, play frame, loop and flow and annihilation) and combines the theoretical aspect of the Play Cycle with empirical research evidence. The book also provides an observational tool for people to observe and record play cycles. This book will appeal to playworkers, teachers, play therapists and professionals working in other contexts with children, such as hospitals and prisons. It will support practitioners and students in learning about play and provide lecturers and trainers with a new innovative teaching and training aide.
