Letting the Outside In [OP]: Developing Teaching and Learning Beyond the Early Years Classroom - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858563917 ISBN 13: 9781858563916

Publisher: Trentham Books, 2007

Synopsis

Children learn best when their learning makes sense to them. This book is for early childhood educators who want to provide opportunities for the children to learn in ways that make rich and relevant connections to their lives, experiences, and interests outside of the classroom.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the outside that can be brought into children’s experiences in schools--whether in country or inner city spaces. The principles underpinning the importance of the outside environment in children’s learning and development are related to ways of using spaces outside the classroom for learning. But the book is also about allowing children’s daily lives into the classroom so that their families and communities contribute to school life and that what children learn and experience outside school is recognised and valued within it.
This book is for all early childhood educators who seek to know and understand the children and communities they are working with and want to make learning as exciting and relevant as possible for children. It will be of interest to all who work with young children. Contributors include: Richard Bailey, Jonathan Barnes, Gina Donaldson, Sue Hammond, Trisha Maynard, Ian Pickup, Ian Shirley, Helen Taylor, Rosemary Walters, Jane Williams-Siegfriedson and Terry White.

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Review

"Letting the Outside In brings a breath of fresh air to early years thinking in an age when compliance and control seem to dominate. .. The relationship between theory and practice is carefully and sensitively articulated in ways that allow practitioners to think about what they do and why, and to justify their actions to others as they develop their provision."

Edition details

• Publisher: Trentham Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858563917
• ISBN 13: 9781858563916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162
• Editor: Austin Rebecca