Young Children Learning / Edition 2

by Barbara Tizard, Martin Hughes

Overview

This fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children learn and how best to teach them. In particular it turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children; and it throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. The second edition of this bestselling text includes a new introduction by Judy Dunn.

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• Fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children.
  
• Turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children.
  
• Throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home.
  
• The authors' evidence is the children's own conversations which are quoted extensively and are delightful.
  
• The second edition of this bestselling text includes an introduction by Judy Dunn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631236153
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/28/2003
Series:	Understanding Children's Worlds
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Barbara Tizard is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, the University of London, where she was formerly Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. All her research with children and young people has been concerned to provide a sounder basis for the decisions, practices and policies that help to shape their lives and their development. Her books include Adoption: A Second Chance (1970), Involving Parents in Nursery and Infant Schools (with Burchell and Mortimore, 1978), Young Children at School in the Inner City (with Blatchford, Burke, Farquhar, and Plewis, 1988), and Black, White, or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the lives of Young People (with Phoenix, 1993).

Martin Hughes is Professor in the Psychology of Education and Head of School at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. He has researched and written widely on children’s learning of mathematics, reading and computers, on the relationship between home and school, and on the role of parents in their children’s education. Between 1991 and 1997 he directed the ESRC research programme on ‘Innovation and Change in Education: The Quality of Teaching and Learning’. He is the author or editor of several books, including Parents and their Children's Schools (with Wikeley and Nash, Blackwell Publishers, 1994), Perceptions of Teaching and Learning (1994), Progression in Learning (1995) and Teaching and Learning in Changing Times (with Desforges and Mitchell, 2000).

Table of Contents

Foreword – Judy Dunn vii

Preface xiii

1. Why we studied children learning 1

2. How we carried out this study 11

3. Learning at home: play, games, stories and ‘lessons’ 22

4. Learning at home: living and talking together 54

5. The puzzling mind of the four-year-old 80

6. Working-class verbal deprivation: myth or reality? 107

7. An afternoon with Donna and her mother 132

8. How the children fared at nursery school 148

9. The working-class girls, including Donna, at school 179

10. The gap between home and nursery school 197

11. Young children learning 209

Statistical appendix 227

Notes 236

Index of children 241

General index 242

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'The positive and extremely important message that comes from 'Young Children Learning' is that young children learn a great deal of value in the most informal of settings. The evidence that Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes present to support this conclusion is convincing and stimulating.' Peter Bryant, Oxford University

Editorial Reviews

'The positive and extremely important message that comes from 'Young Children Learning' is that young children learn a great deal of value in the most informal of settings. The evidence that Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes present to support this conclusion is convincing and stimulating.' Peter Bryant, Oxford University

From the Publisher