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Science in Early Childhood 4th Ed.
It is widely recognised that science exploration is vital in children's lives as they make sense of the world. Now in its fourth edition, Science in Early Childhood provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to science in the early years.
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Technologies Education for the Primary Years
Create. Innovate. Shape. Transform. Improve. Solve. Restore. Sustain. All of these things are possible with the aid of the powerful processes, knowledge and skills that students discover in this exciting new text about the technologies education area.
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School-based Partnerships in Teacher Education
This book demonstrates school-based approaches to primary science teacher education. The models used involve partnerships between universities and primary schools to engage pre-service primary teachers in classroom teaching and learning that effectively connects theory with practice separate to the formal practicum arrangements.
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Strong Foundations
Strong Foundations: Evidence informing practice in early childhood education and care celebrates the progress made by the Australian early childhood education and care profession since the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework.
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Learning Science Beyond the Classroom
In the writing of this book, the editors wanted to create a text which would inform and guide readers who were interested in alternative ways of ‘doing’ science in school education. Using current research of the authors and a review of the research literature, the book provides information that is relevant and responsive to its intended audience.
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Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts
Offers an insight into the clash and complement of mental illness and creativity, as well as the challenge to higher education of elaborating on teaching and learning innovation that can be used to evaluate and subsequently inform the design of creativity-enhancing pedagogical practice and creative problem solving through technology education.