Books written by Dorothy Faulkner

Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn

The work presented here is united through the contributors' shared desire to understand and promote educationally productive collaborative work, whilst investigating this in diverse ways, for example with respect to the particular contexts, ...
Making Sense of Social Development

This book explores children's social relationships in and out of the classroom. Chapters focus on the growing importance of children's friendships and how these influence social participation and development later on in life.
Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives

... Decree Law (43/2007) Teacher Education 16; and early childhood educators 7; ECE programme evaluation and response 2 ... 58, 60, 62 preschool, learning and well-being source study 87–99; analytical studies 89–90; areas researched 88; ...
Making Sense of Social Development

Adolescents can tell their best friends all their secrets and problems. Intimacy also involves trust. Adolescents can tell secrets to friends without worrying that the friend will tell others. In addition, intimacy involves ...
Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

Using examples of attachment theory and language development, this book takes a cultural approach to early development, looking at the way children learn through relationships and attain capacities for empathy and social understanding.
Exploring Children's Creative Narratives

Young, S. (2003a) Music with the Under Fours, London: RoutledgeFalmer. Young, S. (2003b) 'The interpersonal dimension: a potential source of creativity for young children?', Musicae Scientiae Special Issue 1999–2000, pp. 165–79.
Learning Relationships in the Classroom

The discursive practices in science classrooms differ substantially from the practices of scientific argument and enquiry that take place within various communities of professional scientists ; this is hardly surprising when one ...
Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

This is the first of three readers which have been specially prepared as readers for the Open University MA Course: ED840 Child Development in Families, Schools and Society.
Progress, Change and Development in Early Childhood Education and Care: International Perspectives

This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Early Years Education.
Learning Relationships in the Classroom

This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relationships for children's learning and for educational practice.