Outdoor Learning in the Early Years (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Outdoor Learning in the Early Years A guide to create effective outdoor environments for young children's learning. It covers various aspects of working outdoors in the early years, and explains the importance of outdoor play to children's development. It shows how to: manage and set up the outdoor area, allow children to take managed risks, and make sense of work and play.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 30 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Pre-school & Kindergarten | Primary & Middle Schools | Extra-curricular Activities
- ISBN 13: 9780415454773 ISBN 10: 0415454778
- Sales rank: 115,661
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Full description for Outdoor Learning in the Early Years
Now in its third edition, "Outdoor Learning in the Early Years" is the complete guide to creating effective outdoor environments for young children's learning. Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, this book covers every aspect of working outdoors in the early years and fully explains the importance of outdoor play to children's development. Key topics covered include: how to manage and set up the outdoor area, what children gain from being outside, how to allow children to take managed risks, making sense of work and play, how outdoor provision helps children become self regulatory, providing for both boys and girls in the outdoor environment, and research supporting the outdoor approach. A book for practitioners at every level of their career; each chapter includes discussions and questions for continuing development that can easily be incorporated into INSET as well as training within further or higher education. "Outdoor Learning in the Early Years" contains a multitude of ideas and activities for working outdoors in the early years and provides a framework within which professionals can analyze and develop their outdoor provision and environment. This book is essential reading for all EYFS and Key Stage 1 practitioners, and for trainee teachers, their tutors, and mentors.
