Early Years Policy and Practice: A Critical Alliance (Critical Approaches to the Early Years) - Softcover

Tomlinson, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909330612 ISBN 13: 9781909330610

Publisher: Critical Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A comprehensive and up to date text for all those required to understand early years' policy and practice. It provides a succinct insight into key elements of the national and international political, economic and social agendas that influence and affect young children's lives, and the impact of these on early years' professional practice and provision. It provides a critical examination of policy development and its application within an historical and international context.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Tomlinson's working life has been spent developing, delivering or teaching aspects of children's policy. Her decades of experience and learning include school teaching in the 1970s, to play development work in the 1980s, as a university academic developing and delivering childhood studies graduate programmes through the 1990s to 2009 when she took up the position of head of the early years programme at the Children's Workforce Development Council. Her interest in early childhood policy continues through involvement as governor of a large college and membership of a number of early years fora.

About this edition

• Publisher: Critical Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909330612
• ISBN 13: 9781909330610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Davison Chelle, Waltham Susan