Required Readings
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Athey, C. (1990) Extending Thought in Young Children. A Parent-Teacher Partnership. London: Sage.
Barnardos (2012) Can we Help? A Guide to Supporting Children and Families in Early Years Services. Dublin :Barnardos Training and Resource Service:
MacNaughton, Glenda and Hughes, Patrick . (2011) Parents and Professionals in Early Childhood Settings. Berkshire: Open University Press.
Pengreen working with parents
Siraj-Blatchford, I. edt. Clarke K. and Needham, M. ( 2007) The Team around the child, Multi-agency working in the early years. London :Trenham Books.
Ward, U. (2009) Working with Parents in Early Years Settings. London: Sage
Whalley, M. and the Pen Gren Centre Team ( 1997) Working with Parents. London: Hodder and Stoughton
Whalley, M. and the Pen Green Tam (2007) Involving Parents in their Children’s Learning. 2nd. Edt. London: Sage.
Recommended Readings
Bandura, Albert. (1977). Social Learning Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Bowlby, John( 1953) Childcare and the Growth of Love. Middlesex: Penguin.
Brennan, Carmel. (2004) (ed) Power of Play: a play curriculum in action. Dublin: IPPA
Bronfenbrenner, Urie (1979) The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Carr, Margaret. (2001) Assessment in Early Childhood Settings. London. Chapman
Dahlberg and Moss (2005) Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education. London. Routledge
DCYA (2012) Guidance for developing ethical research projects involving children. Dublin: DCYA
Gerhardt, Sue. (2004) Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain. Hove: Routledge
Giroux,Henri (1983) Theory and Resistance in Education. A Pedagogy for the Opposition. London: Heinemann.
Giroux, Henri. (200). Public Spaces, Private Lives. Beyond the Culture of Cynicism. Boston: Rowoon and Littlefield Publishers.
Goldberg, Susan. (2003) Attachment and Development. London: Arnold Publishers.
Holmes, Jeremy (1993) John Bowlby and Attachment Theory. Routledge: London
Siraj-Blatchford I. and Clarke P.(2000) Supporting Identity, Diversity and Language in the Early Years (supporting Early Learning) Oxford : Open University Press
Vygotsky, Lev (1978) Mind in Society. The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Edt. Cole, M. John-Steiner, Scribner, S. and Souberman, E. Cambridge MA. Harvard.
Parental Involvement in Multi-cultural pre-school settings :