Understanding Schemas and Emotion in Early Childhood
- Cath Arnold - Pen Green Early Years Centre
Understanding Schemas and Emotion in Early Childhood makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions and their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas, attachment theory and family contexts, the author takes schema theory into the territory of the emotions, making it relevant to the social and emotional development strand in early childhood education.
Based on research carried out alongside children, parents, workers and co-researchers at the world-famous Pen Green Nursery, and using case studies of a small number of individual children, the author shows new links between cognition and affect. The book includes a brief summary of a method of Child Study, using video and reflections on video sequences.
This book will be of interest to students and practitioners on Early Childhood undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as those taking modules on schema theory.
'Interesting and valuable..This book will be of great interest to all students and early years practitioners interested in understanding more about the nature of young children's play, learning and development' -
Early Years Update
'The book will prove useful for students in levels 1 and 2 of an undergraduate Early Childhood Studies Degree and to their lecturers.The concept of differing schemas can prove difficult for some students to grasp; I believe this book will provide all the real world examples necessary to enhance their understanding'
The Psychology of Education
This is a comprehensive and accessible text that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the content as a theoretical idea and as it relates to practice.
This book is very user friendly, using real case studies. Links theory to practice well. I will urge my learners to purchase this as a first choice book.
An in depth book which has supported the current students within their observation modules.
A wonderful exploration of the link between emotional development abd schemas, which provoked extensive discussion amongst our third year students on the BA(Hons) Early Years Education degree course.
Regardless of study, this is a book that all practitioners should read to help understand children's development
Interesting and will be useful for students new to schemas and to extend understanding of those already familiar with this approach to work with young children.
I looked forward to this text with eagerness and anticipation, having often observed schemas in young children. However, I found some of the links to emotion quite tenuous and feel that chapters need to be reviewed several times, in the context of observing a particular child in the setting who may be displaying similar behaviours.
Probably more useful for those with some existing knowledge of schemas that those less familiar with the concept
Super case studies that bring to life the schemas explored in this text. The style of writikng suits Foundation Degree students who are work-based learners; so practical exmaples and studies of children speaks to them in volumes!!Clear explanantion and demonstration of the different schemas offering great support for interpretating children's observed play, which is one of the key skills for the module. Many thanks for the inspection copy, I will treasrure it, too.
This text is useful for this particular module of our programme and willpossibly be recommended in other modules as well.