How Children Learn: The Characteristics of Effective Early Learning

by Nancy Stewart

Written by Early Education Associate Nancy Stewart with a foreword by Early Education President Helen Moylett, this book explores effective early childhood learning through focusing on how rather than what children learn. This will be an important theme in the revised Early Years Foundation Stage, set to be published in Spring 2012 for implementation in England from September 2012. Its content is however, applicable across the range of curricula and frameworks that govern early childhood education across the four UK nations, as well as internationally.

114 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Nancy grew up in Belleville, Illinois amidst a houseful of books and with a menagerie of animals, including two horses. She has been an elementary school teacher and a professor of education. Having lived in London for ten years, she was a consultant at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Nancy is the bestselling and award-winning author of the four Bella and Britt Series books for children, including Sea Turtle Summer, Mystery of Manatee Key, Bella Saves the Beach and One Pelican at a Time Nancy and Pelican were featured in the PBS Tampa special, GulfWatch, after the Deepwater Horizon Spill of 2010 and about which Pelican was written.

Katrina and Winter: Partners in Courage, is the authorized biography of Katrina Simpkins, the young girl who formed a special bond with Winter, the Dolphin.

Beulah Land is Nancy's award winning Young Adult novel, published in 2017. It earned an Indies Honorable Award, which stated in part, "Nancy Stewart has produced a tough, courageous novel that belongs on the shelf next to young-adult survival stories like Hatchet and Bridge to Terabithia."

MG novel, Me and the Missouri Moon will be launched June 9, 2024 (Monarch Press).

Reviews

[Anna Puleio · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book very helpful and not only for early years practitioners.
I particularly enjoyed the growth mindset's quotes by Einstein.