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Overview
This fully-updated second edition of Learning Through Child Observation is a handbook for professionals working in, or students preparing to work in, children's services. In this accessible text, Mary Fawcett examines the value of observation, its use in assessment and the practical aspects and methods of observational study. New chapters include Views on Children and Childhood, which draws on European educational and sociological perspectives and highlights the contrasting views of children, and The Hundred Languages of Children, which considers the place of creative engagement and multiple forms of expression by children.
Synopsis
This fully-updated second edition of Learning Through Child Observation is a handbook for professionals working in, or students preparing to work in, children's services. In this accessible text, Mary Fawcett examines the value of observation, its use in assessment and the practical aspects and methods of observational study. New chapters include Views on Children and Childhood, which draws on European educational and sociological perspectives and highlights the contrasting views of children, and The Hundred Languages of Children, which considers the place of creative engagement and multiple forms of expression by children.