The Routledge International Handbook of Early Childhood Education (Routledge International Handbooks of Education) - Tapa dura

Edited by four leading experts in the field of early childhood education, this book provides a cutting edge overview and discursive summaries of current research, main debates in the field and future trends. The entire landscape of early childhood education is surveyed through a collection of specially commissioned articles including the following themes:

• child & society
• policy and politics
• development and learning
• diversity, learning and access
• professionalism and parents
• new developments.

This Handbook will be an essential work of reference for any student of early childhood education, elementary education, child development, education policy and social work at both undergraduate and graduate level.

Professor Christine Pascal and Professor Tony Bertram are both Directors of the Centre for Research in Early Childhood, University of Worcester. They are members of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association and sit on the editorial board of the T&F journal of the same name.

Philip Gammage was formerly Dean of the University of Nottingham. He is currently 'professorial adviser' to the State Department of Education and Children's Services, South Australia. He also holds the de Lissa Chair in early Childhood, supported by the de Lissa Trust Fund.

John Bennett was director of the Early Childhood and Family unit at UNESCO from 1989-97.