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.
I like the case study approach very good to include examples for students to reflect upon.
This book matches very well with our course content for second year undergraduates. It builds and extends the theoretical and conceptual framework, introduced in the first year. This concentrates on cognitive, social and emotional development, so this book is a welcome find.
Cath's book is accessible. It encourages us to consider the whole child's learning and development when analysing documentation and supports us to gain a deeper into the child as they make meaning of their worlds.
Appropriate resource for stundents at undergraduate level, wishing to explore further the concept of schemas
A clear and engaging account of observations and reflections on schemas. Really useful accounts of researcher reflection and emotional engagement.
Observation and subsequent discussion and interpretation sections are very useful.
Lots of in depth case studies. Lots of detail. Well laid out.
this text is supported by relevant theoretical perspectives and allows the reader to fully understand schemas within the early years.
Lots of in depth case studies. Lots of detail. Well laid out.
The observations in this book really link it to practice and make it invaluable to the practitioner. Thorough explanation of the different schemas that children may demonstrate.