Early Childhood Australia

The Research in Practice series is a practical, easy-to-read resource offering effective new approaches for those challenging issues which arise in the care and education of young children.

Covering a wide range of topics, Early Childhood Australia’s Research in Practice series provides up-to-date information, ideas and advice from experts in the field. The books are an essential resource for all service-based early childhood workers and many titles are appropriate for use by parents, grandparents and carers.

Active Children Healthy Now and Later

In Active children: Healthy Now and Later, authors Linley Campbell and Josephine Musumeci explore how to encourage children to develop and maintain a love of movement, through options that allow choice and incorporate play, so having fun is emphasised.

Aggression and Young Children

This book discusses research about the development, causes, and implications of aggression in young children. It also lists some ways that adults can help children develop and use approaches other than aggression.

Capture the Moment: Using digital photography in early childhood settings

Digital photography opens a whole new world of communication within early childhood settings, giving scope for devising more effective ways of engaging children, producing resources and encouraging interaction with parents.

The Circle of Security: Roadmap to building supportive relationships

The Circle of Security approach helps us to look beyond children's immediate behaviour to meet their genuine relationship needs.

The Code of Ethics: A guide for everyday practice

The decisions that early childhood professionals make define their work – The Code of Ethics: A guide for everyday practice helps professionals ensure that these decisions reflect and respond to the complex ethical demands of everyday practice.

Dealing with Bullying Together: Prevention and resolution

Dealing with bullying together: Prevention and resolution includes tips for developing a bullying policy at your service and information on how personal experiences can influence our reactions to bullying.

Discovering Letters and Sounds

Everyday learning about friendship will provide helpful ideas and guidance to assist children to develop their social skills and become confident, self-assured members of society.

Diversity and Difference: Lighting the spirit of identity

An inspiring yet confronting insight into the perceptions of cultural and racial equity of young children from a variety of backgrounds.

Dreaming Stories: A springboard for learning

Dreaming Stories are important parts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' cultural heritage, and invaluable sources of knowledge and wisdom for everyone.

Engaging Families: Building strong communication

This book discusses the importance of sharing and combining information about the social and cultural values of families, and the hopes and expectations they hold for their children, together with the knowledge of educators about effective pedagogy to support children's learning.

Greening services: Practical sustainability

Planning for sustainability is outlined in detail, with the steps necessary to develop your own management plan, setting targets and goals with the input of all groups involved in the service.

Learnings from High/Scope: Enriching everyday practice

Learnings from High/Scope: Enriching everyday practice is an informative guide that provides practical experiences of the High/Scope approach in Australian settings.

Managing change with infants and young children

In this book, the author outlines what carers can do to help to make infants' and young children's early experiences of change as stress-free as possible.

Nurturing the Spiritual Child: Compassion, connection and a sense of self

Authors Patrice Thomas and Vanna Lockwood suggest that children's spirituality is evidenced in their sense of self, the connections they establish with others and their search for meaning in life.

Overlooked Curriculum: Seeing everyday possibilities

This book challenges early childhood educators and others caring for young children to reflect upon everyday interactions between children as a foundation for problem-solving, learning and developing relationships.

Portfolios: Documenting a journey

Portfolios: Documenting a journey aims to inspire early childhood practitioners to begin documenting their teaching and learning journey along with the families they work with.

Revisiting Celebrations with Young Children

This book discusses revisiting celebrations with young children and the types of activities that can be used.

Storytelling with Young Children

In this book, the author updates her earlier work on this topic and clearly explains the skills and methods needed to engage young children.

Treasures and collections: A touch of magic in the early years

Treasures and collections: A touch of magic in the early years explores the idea of using children’s innate interest in collecting as a focus for programming.

Understanding Children's Feelings: Emotional literacy in early childhood

In this book, the author explores how children can be supported and encouraged to be aware of their feelings and to understand how they can deal with them.

Young Children as Active Learners

Young children as active learners is written to stimulate reflection upon issues related to how children learn and to encourage those working with young children to provide a range of opportunities for them to actively direct their own learning.

Young Gifted Children: Meeting their needs

Well-known psychologist and educator Louise Porter provides an updated, revised edition of her previous book of the same title, outlining a range of strategies for those seeking to meet the needs of young gifted children.