Promoting Children's Learning from Birth to Five: Developing the New Early Years Professional - Softcover

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Angela Anning is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Leeds. She has a background of teaching at all levels. Her specialisms are the education of young children and art and design education and her career in schools culminated in the Headship of an infant school with a large nursery unit in Salford. Her current role involves initial training of teachers, in-service and masters level teaching, supervision of research students and the development of an innovative BA (Hons) Degree in Childhood Studies. Significant publications in the field of early childhood are The First Years at School 2nd Edn (1997) and A National Curriculum for the Early Years (1995), both published by the Open University Press.

Anne Edwards is Professor of Pedagogic Practice at the University of Birmingham. For the past twenty five years she has researched in the fields of primary education, pre-school provision and professional education. Her particular interests lie in children's learning and the professional development of those adults responsible for the development of children as learners. Her current work includes consultancies associated with teaching as a research-based profession and the involvement of parents in raising children's performance in literacy and numeracy. She has written extensively on action research, teacher development and children's learning in educational settings. She is the author, with Peter Knight, of Effective Early Years Education (1994) Open University Press.