Professionalism in the Early Years

Summary:

Ensure you are not left behind as professionalism in the Early Years sector becomes more more valued than ever before. 
Professor Nutbrown's review of the Early Years sector demands ever higher levels of professionalism and builds on previous initiatives such as Early Years Professional Status (EYPS). Gain insight into what this means and how it can be achieved with this unique textbook that covers all aspects of professionalism  Student-friendly, accessible and authoritative, this is the ideal core reader for all those embarking on their professional development within the Early Years sector.

• The only book of its kind covering professionalism in Early Years.
  
• Written by national and international authorities in the field, all of whom are involved in teaching, training and research or at policy level.
  
• Covers a wide range of issues including: routes to professionalism; policy developments; multi-professional collaboration and multi-agency working; international perspectives; rethinking professionalism; key themes and issues within the Early Years workforce.
  

Table of Contents:
Routes to Professionalism
1. Developing professionalism in the Early Years: from policy to practice
2. Developing new professional roles in the Early Years
3. Early Childhood Studies Degrees and the development of a graduate profession
4. The early years teacher
5. Teaching assistants in the early years
6. The P word and home-based childcarers
7. Leadership in the early years
Developing professional practice
8. Reflective practice
9. Computer mediated communication - using e-learning to support professional development
10. Studying the Early Years Foundation Degree: student voices
Rethinking professionalism
11. The democratic and reflective professional: rethinking and reforming the early years workforce
12. Who is an early years professional? Reflections on policy diversity in Europe
13. The new teacher in New Zealand
14. Promoting young children's development: implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
15. Looking to the future

About the Author(s):
Linda Miller is Professor in Early Years at the Open University. She is former chair of the Sector Endorsed Foundation Degrees in Early Years (SEFDEY) national network.

Carrie Cable is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the Open University. She is involved in developing courses for teaching assistants and early years practitioners and has contributed to national training and development initiatives for teaching assistants and teachers, particularly in the field of English as an additional language

Readership:
Early Years Foundation Degree students; Early Childhood Studies Degree students; Early Years Profesisonal Pathways