Developmental Education for Young Children: Concept, Practice and Implementation (Hardcover, 2012)

Introduction; Bert van Oers.- Part 1: Developmental Education: Core issues.- 2. Developmental Education: Foundations of a Play-based Curriculum; Bert van Oers.- 3. Responsible Teaching; Wim Wardekker.- 4. Developmental Education for Young Children: Basic Development; Frea Janssen-Vos and Bea Pompert.- Part 2: Good practices of Developmental Education.- 5. Learning to Communicate in Young Children’s Classrooms; Dorian de Haan.- 6. Assessing Vocabulary Development; Renata Adan.- 7. Dynamic Assessment of Narrative Competence; Chiel van der Veen and Marielle Poland.- 8. Promoting Abstract Thinking in Young Children’s Play; Bert van Oers and Marielle Poland.- 9. Teaching Arts: Promoting Aesthetic Thinking; Lieke Roof.- 10. Every Child is Special: Teaching Young Children with Special Needs; Isabel Peters and Barbara Nellesteijn.- 11. Fostering the Teacher ? Parent Partnership; Andre Weijers and Frea Janssen-Vos.- Part 3: Implementing the play-based curriculum of Developmental Education.- 12. Coaching the Transition towards Developmental Education: Exploring the Situation with Teachers; Lorien de Koning.- 13. Creating Knowledge and Practice in the Classroom: Bea Pompert.- 14. Evaluation of Learning and Development; Ester van Oers.- 15. Teaching Reading by Writing; Bea Pompert.- 16. Learning to Communicate about Number; Niko Fijma.- 17. Developmental Education Schools as Learning Organisations; Hans Bakker.- Conclusion: Actual and future consequences of implementing and researching Developmental Education; Bert van Oers.- Index.