How Children Learn: From Montessori to Vygotsky - Educational Theories and Approaches Made Easy: 0

Absolute lifesaver! Honestly. Over the past few years studies childhood studies, working my way up I have always struggled to get my head around the nightmare theorists!! It just never stuck in my head, websites made it so confusing and no books in the library explained it any easier. Honestly thought I just wouldn’t be able to carry on through to my degree, until I found this little beauty in the library. Continuously having to renew this because I found myself needing it more and more. I finally bit the bullet and bought it for myself. And what a great purchase is will be for completing the rest of my degree.Although one thing I will add, is this is basically like a childhood theorist book “for dummies” like myself. So basically just explains and simplifies everything down for you. So if you are using this for higher education I do recommend researching the theorists more in-depth before adding it into your work as it only tells to things in brief. But a huge must must must!! Don’t hesitate. Linda pound is a legend!

This book was highly recommended for my degree and it is fantastic! Lets be honest there are so many childcare theorists and they can become confusing however this book answers all questions. It's set out in a easy basic simple format which makes it easy to understand information on each theorist. However this book is a level3 book and my uni have advised not to reference in my work. However this book is great for gaining a good understanding and can be used as a foundation of collecting information which you can then go and quote from else where. Great buy!!

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This book was great when studying for my Diploma in Childcare and Education - the modules will require a book of this type and detail to get you through! Get reference point and bite-size information on all the relevant theories.

This is a fantastic book which has been such a help for writing uni essays and understanding child development. It explains everything in a simple way and gives you the key facts about each theorist. It packs a lot of information in but also allows you to use this as a starting point to research particular theorists or ideas that interest you. I also like that it is written in chronological order as this gives you a sense of how education and the understanding of child development has changed over the years. I would recommend this book to anyone studying education, childcare or child development.

Anybody completing a PGCE must buy this book! A tutor recommended it as an excellent starting point for theory research and she was right. The book has easy to read summaries on all the key practitioners with additional suggested reading and websites. This book was a life saver when writing my own assignments for my PGCE and I know other colleagues who found it equally useful. If you only buy one book to help with your assignments make sure it's this one!

This book gives a brief outline of the most well known child development theorists. Studying for my foundation degree in childhood studies I refer to this book often as a start point for further research on a particuar theorist, or to find a theorist to make sence of my studies. Together with 'Theories of Childhood' by Carol Garhart Mooney I'm not worried about where to start looking for my research. I look at these! BUY IT.

I have used this book to help me write assignments for my Level 3 in Childcare and I found this very useful I like the layout on the kindle and found it easy to make notes and highlight useful information for me to refer to later.In all great I love it and I will be referring to it in practice I am sure.

good book to get an initial idea about existing research, theories and theorists on behalf of children's learning and development, very useful to support studies in the child care sector; delivery was very prompt and reliable