Early Years Play and Learning: Developing Social Skills and Cooperation

This accessible and practical book provides practitioners with a tool-kit for observing and assessing children's play through a unique Social Play Continuum, developed by the author over the course of a decade working in early years classrooms. The author also provides a framework for reflection on and the development of traditional areas of provision across the 3-7 age range, and will help the practitioner acquire an enhanced understanding of the links between intellectual development, the growth of language and the emotional well being of young children.

Pat Broadhead is Research Professor for Education at Northumbria University.