How can early childhood practitioners best encourage young children to become lifelong 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.

Authors and early childhood educators Andrea Nolan, Anna Kilderry and Roslyn O'Grady have used their experiences of working with young children to explore how the starting point of children being actively involved in their own learning can enhance outcomes in early childhood settings.

They cite a range of examples where an initial stimulus was extended by the children through skills such as research, problem-solving and teamwork. The authors also challenge early childhood practitioners to more effectively engage children through a combination of play, teaching and learning.

This book is a very useful tool for all early childhood practitioners to enhance the learning potential of the children in their care and extend their own creativity.

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