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Teaching Children How to Identify and Express Emotions
Teaching Children How to Identify and Express Emotions Acknowledging a child’s emotions, putting words on anger, fear, sadness,...
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Returning to School After Coronavirus Lockdown
At a time of great uncertainty, schools and settings are trying to work out the best way to...
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What is Music Therapy?
Healing Through Music Therapy For several years, music has been part of a therapeutic approach: this is what...
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The New Age of Digital Technology and Early Years Education
Since at least the 1980s “computers” have played some part in education. Yet while no one would claim...
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How Does Technology Affect Children’s Creativity?
Digital technologies of numerous kinds make modern lifestyles more comfortable for us all. But for young children born...
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The Role of Digital Play in the Early Years
Today’s pre-school children were born into the digital age, so for them it is already simply a feature...
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Child Development Theories: Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky was another psychologist who believed children learn about their world through physical interaction. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory...
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The Impact of Technology on Social & Emotional Development
The use of technology is one of those areas of childcare and early years learning where conflicting opinions...
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Digital Literacy: What Does it Mean to be Literate in the 21st Century?
Early exposure to everyday digital devices is giving young children access to a rich variety of new forms...
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What makes Early Years Children so Digitally Fluent?
What makes Early Years Children so Digitally Fluent? Even the very young seem digitally fluent, born ready to...
Further Reading
- The Importance of Stage Based Play
- 8 Budget Friendly Outdoor Activities
- Returning to School After Coronavirus Lockdown
- Early Years Science Activities
- Playworker Role in Play
- Lev Vygotsky
- Simple Classroom Guitar Songs
- Group Learning in Early Years
- Learning through Playing
- Playworker Role in Outdoor Play & Learning
- Activities for Children with Autism
- How to Teach Children with Autism
- The Effect of a Sensory Impairment
- Emotional Development in Children
- Encourage Child Independence
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