Tag: Childhood

Free Download Michael F. Shaughnessy, "Handbook of Early Childhood Education "
English | ISBN: 1613241542 | 2011 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
At this time in our nation’s history, the establishment of a solid foundation upon which to build a student’s educational framework and basic skills is imperative. Teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers are all focusing on test scores, standardised measurement of growth, annual yearly progress and ‘value added’ issues. While education begins in the home, it is the early educational environment in which children are exposed to licensed certified professionals whose charge is to provide students with exposure to the basics and to identify those with developmental needs, and assist in the intervention process. This book provides an overview of the field of early childhood education as well as ancillary issues that permeate the field.

Free Download Practical Strategies to Reduce Childhood Trauma and Mitigate Exposure to the School-to-Prison Pipeline
by Belinda M. Alexander-Ashley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 166845713X | 378 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Free Download Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 037571457X | PDF | pages: 158 | 27.0 mb
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Free Download Mollie Davies, "Movement and Dance in Early Childhood"
English | 2003 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 0761940545, 0761940537 | PDF | 4,3 mb
The book seeks to help early childhood educators and parents in very practical ways and provides guidance based on a sound theoretical understanding.

Free Download Jacqueline Waldren, "Learning From the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World "
English | ISBN: 0857453254 | 2012 | 204 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult-child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

Free Download The Semiotics of Toys and Games: The Childhood Artefacts that Introduce Us to the World
by Theo van Leeuwen and Staffan Selander
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1350324892 | 227 Pages | True PDF | 1.88 MB

Free Download Janet Fellowes, Grace Oakley , "Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education, 4th edition"
English | ISBN: 0190338776 | 2024 | 632 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Language,Literacy and Early Childhood Education, fourth edition, focuses on language and literacy development in children from birth to age eight, with a particular emphasis on four- to eight-year-olds.

Free Download Childhood Cancer Survivors with Chronic Diseases by Christian Müller
English | August 19, 2023 | ISBN: 3031317963 | 140 pages | MOBI | 0.73 Mb
This book is a unique documentation about the whole range of childhood cancer late effects and discusses their different ways of global influences. The number of childhood cancer survivors is increasing continuously. Thus the topic is also getting more important and well informed caregivers are needed in their institutions. Survivorship after childhood cancer is not the same as survivorship after cancer in adults’ age.

Free Download Athena A. Drewes, "Play Therapy in Middle Childhood"
English | ISBN: 1433820838 | 2015 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book helps therapists provide developmentally appropriate, effective play therapy for children ages 6 to 12. The interventions address internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, relational deficits, and autism spectrum disorder.

Free Download Michelle Y. Pearlman, "Grief in Childhood: Fundamentals of Treatment in Clinical Practice"
English | ISBN: 1433807521 | 2010 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents integrated grief therapy for children-an evidence-based model for treating bereaved children that draws extensively on cognitive behavioral, family systems, and narrative approaches to therapy. The authors’ model shows clinicians how to assess the needs of bereaved children, treat common distressing symptoms (depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and behavioral problems), and address the grief itself while fostering resilience.