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.
This is a really useful book in supporting students in looking at how past influences have influenced to current policies and practices today. A really useful book
The book gives a good understanding of theories of child development for undergraduate learners.
A thorough overview of key issues. Accessible for masters level study.
An accessible text for trainees. Easy to navigate and comprehensive in its coverage.
This book offers a useful overview of learning theory for our level 4 students, with some helpful case study examples. The wider age range means that it is not a recommended text for our early years students but the chapter on thinking and learning in the early years will be particularly relevant.
Excellent book suitable across all levels on all early years courses.
This is an easily accessible book for Fd students.
This is a good supplementary text that I would recommend for level 4 but more suited to students with some previous knowledge of theory and children's learning. Level 5 would benefit from the analytical text.
This is an excellent book, covering a range of aspects impacting on children's learning. Ideal for Initial Teacher Education students and lecturers.
Excellent resource for my students will recommend they all use this for their course
