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Learning Through PlayFor Babies, Toddlers and Young Children
Author(s): Tina Bruce (Author)
- Publisher: Hodder Education
- Publication Date: 29 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 1444137166
- ISBN-13: 9781444137163
Book Description
Professor Tina Bruce, an acknowledged expert on play, has a real talent for presenting key ideas and difficult concept in a clear and straightforward manner. This edition of Learning Through Play is the definitive guide to the values behind play, the importance of play for child development from 0 to 5 years old, and best practice for cultivating play in an Early Years or Educational setting. She shows that play helps children to achieve the highest form of learning in early childhood.
This is an ideal text for those studying Play at levels 3 and 4, Foundation Degrees, Undergraduate Early Childhood Studies and Primary Education courses, Postgraduate study and for those working in an Early Years setting.
– The expert on play writes at a level that students enjoy and understand: “I would always recommend books by Tina Bruce to my students as she is highly accessible, combining theory and practice closely together. They are attractively laid out and are therefore popular with students.” Maureen Brookson, University of East Anglia
– The content is suitable for a range of levels and programmes: “This book is excellent. It is an invaluable resource for both qualified and trainee early years practitioners. Tina Bruce has a real talent with how she expresses ideas. The concepts are presented in an accessible way. The material is suitable across a range of levels of study.” Caroline McGrath, Programme Manger for Foundation Degree in Early Childhood Studies, City of Bristol College in partnership with the University of Plymouth
