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Learning through Child Observation (Second Edition)

By Mary Fawcett (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 14.99, ISBN 978-1-84310-676-0)

This fully updated edition is a useful handbook for early years professionals and students preparing to work in children's services. Fawcett examines the value of observation, its use in assessment and methods of observational study. New chapters include Views on Children and Childhood, looking at European perspectives on education, and The Hundred Languages of Children, which considers creativity in its multiple forms.

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