The Early Years Movement Handbook: A Principles-Based Approach to Supporting Young Children’s Physical Development, Health and Wellbeing - Softcover

Lala Manners. Foreword By Professor Gareth Stratton.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785922602 ISBN 13: 9781785922602

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Why is movement so important to ensuring young children's smooth overall development? How may their physical skills be supported by adults? And what are the implications for practice? Answering these questions and more, this book clearly demonstrates the link between physical competency and emergent literacy and numeracy. The first half introduces the eight core principles of movement-based learning. It explains why movement plays such a critical role in children's development and how physical activity underpins the skills that support effective communication and school-readiness. The second suggests ways in which they may be implemented in practice with all children from birth to five years. All children need to be confident and competent movers, effective communicators and ready to tackle the challenges of new experiences and environments. This book will provide the knowledge and tools to ensure that they are.

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Review

Dr Lala Manners' latest book The Early Years Movement Handbook brilliantly connects the dots between physical play and learning. Movement is an essential requisite to early childhood development and an often missing critical element to the body and brain's formal learning preparation. Lala cleverly dissects important research and gives practical ideas of how adding movement to children's daily learning diet can enhance their learning experience. If ever there is a time for making a case for movement-based learning it is now when childhood as we know it is under threat. - Gill Connell, globally respected Child Development and Movement Specialist, co-author of A Moving Child Is a Learning Child and Move Play and Learn with Smart Steps This timely book by Dr Manners provides an accessible text for early years practitioners and students about the crucial importance of physical movement for holistic development. With both theoretical perspectives and practice application, The Early Years Movement Handbook is essential reading. - Dr Eunice Lumsden, Head of Early Years, University of Northampton This is an important and valuable book. Lala has a great ability to think deeply and holistically so as to expertly guide critical shifts in our thinking about the body and being physically active in early childhood. This provocative, challenging and highly readable text makes a compelling case for the centrality of movement in early childhood development, as the primary source of joy, health, resilience, learning and development. Through focusing upon clearly argued principles for movement-centred practice, it provides a fresh, logical and creative resource that demands a response from us all. - Professor Jan White, author of Every Child a Mover and Playing and Learning Outdoors, 3rd edition This book is a wonderful and timely reminder of the need to let go of our adult agendas and free children to follow their innate drive to move, explore, learn and simply enjoy themselves, each other and their world. Drawing on philosophy, science, child development theory and inspiring practical examples, Lala Manners shows us how to create the conditions in which young children can flourish through developing their physical confidence. - Kim Roberts, Chief Executive, HENRY (Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young) This book is hugely helpful in putting the wider discussion about physical development into a historical and pedagogical context. It confirms the importance of all teachers knowing more about why and how we offer children relevant and enjoyable experiences that builds their confidence to use their bodies to explore the changing world. The book is divided in two with part one establishing eight guiding principles that inform and support practice in physical development and the second half focusing on 'How do I do it?' The book avoids becoming a checklist because it is written in such a way as to enable you to drop in and out expanding learning on broad questions such as 'what is movement?' and more specific issues such as spatial reasoning. It will certainly be used as a key text at LEYF. - June O Sullivan MBE, Chief Executive, London Early Years Foundation A much-needed resource at a time when childhood obesity has reached a crisis stage and children are more and more often treated as though they exist only from the neck up! Brava, Lala, for answering the question, "Why bother?" --Rae Pica, Early Childhood Consultant and Author of the Moving & Learning Series

A must-read book for any practitioner working in Early Years education. --Mike Loosemore, MBE, Lead Consultant Sports Physician, English Institute of Sport

In this book Dr. Manners has distilled a lifetime of observation and research into a very necessary, practical manual. Now, more than ever, we need tools based on sound foundations that can effect positive change for children. Dr. Manners is in the unique position of being able to combine physical and cognitive and developmental knowledge to help impact skill progression. A lifetime of experience is now made applicable through her research. This book allows practitioners the privilege of replicating results through an enjoyable, multi-layered appreciation of the value of each child's unique developmental journey experience is now made applicable through her research. This book allows practitioners the privilege of replicating results through an enjoyable, multi-layered appreciation of the value of each child's unique developmental journey. --Lesley Johnson, Speech and Language Therapist and Allied Health Lead

About the Author

Lala Manners PhD has enjoyed a long and varied career promoting the importance of EY movement development and physical activity - as educator, teacher, writer, researcher and consultant - both in the UK and internationally. She has designed and delivered a range of accredited courses for Speech and Language therapists, early years students, practitioners and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1785922602
• ISBN 13: 9781785922602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312