How Children Learn
Understanding How Children Learn is a vital part of working with children. Every child is unique and understanding differences in learning helps all to benefit.
This book goes beyond simply understanding the work of key theorists and the various theories of learning to recognise what learning actually looks like and how it is best facilitated in any setting.
Each chapter includes:
- Exercises to help you evaluate your understanding and practice
- Examples taken from real experiences to illustrate concepts beyond the theory
- Summaries to help you take the key messages from each chapter
- Suggestions for further reading to help push your own learning further.
Looking at key topics such as brain development, technology in childhood and barriers to learning, this book will explain what learning really is.
Why not also have a look at the companion title Learning Theories in Childhood to explore the key learning theories?
Sean MacBlain is Reader in Child Development and Disability at the University of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth.
How Children Learn is easy to read and achieves its goal of locating educational practice in psychological theory and social & cultural philosophy. It offers an excellent introduction to undergraduate learners and a helpful revision for postgrads.
How Children Learn provides an interesting and engaging overview of learning from a variety of perspectives.
This text begins with the introduction of philosophical and classic theories of leaning which help contextualise our current thinking and practice in educational settings.
The reader will be introduced to ideas that provide the foundation for further reading and exploration.
Undergraduate students studying Early Childhood Studies or Education Studies will find this text to be a particularly useful and relevant starting point in understanding learning from an inter-disciplinary perspective. They will be encouraged to reflect critically in relation to theories of learning with an awareness of alternative concepts, perspectives and ideas.
Really good for the course, students are able to dip in and out of the book with ease.
Good overview of learning. Good link of theory to practice - theory in action section. Like the layout and the exercises act as good think points.
excellent book, easy to read and to follow.
nicely presented with helpful examples and exercises
informative and clear to read. Especially for those working with children.
Excellent clear examples of practice given to support explainations. Very useful if studying key concepts dealing with child development.
How Children Learn presents an excellent range of different concepts around children’s learning. The book offers an insight into the key philosophies and learning theories. Furthermore MacBlain reveals children’s learning and brain development, including the importance of play and the family’s role as an educator. In addition the book explores the nature of intelligence and additional needs. Best of all, the book invites the reader to reflect and consider his/her own practice through examples and exercises. This is an essential book for anybody working with children.
A good range of theorist with clear descriptions of theory and good links to practice.
