Product Description: In early childhood education, 'play-based learning' has long been the means of facilitating teaching and learning. The strongest platform for early years education is when children are deeply engaged in rich exploratory play experiences that have been intentionally planned and developed by the educator...read more

Product Description: In the second edition of the highly successful resource Play Matters, author Kathy Walker demonstrates the key principles of the 'Walker Learning Approach'/Australian Developmental Curriculum that she has developed over 15 years of observation, participation, and presentation in schools and child care centers across Australia...read more

Product Description: Book by Walker, David, Walker, Kathy

Product Description: This new book provides information, examples and practical strategies for classroom teachers wishing to explore and implement a Developmental Curriculum (play and project based) into the learning environment. Play Matters highlights the way young children learn in the early years of school and explains that the required teaching and learning strategies are distinct and unique compared to the methods used for older children and adults...read more