Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Mentored Program Observation
Susan Eliason & Gwen Alexander · Bridgewater State University
This book is designed so students experience and reflect upon the full range of childcare delivery models, birth through kindergarten.
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The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years (Budzyna and Buckley)
Deirdre Budzyna and Doris Buckley · Northern Essex Community College
In the contents: 01: Perspectives on Early Childhood · 1.01: Childhood Defined · 08: Early Childhood Development
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Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin · College at Brockport, SUNY
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.
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The ELC - An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work (Bridge, Melita, and Roiger)
Heather Bridge, Lorraine Melita, and Patricia Roiger · State University of New York Corland
The Early Learning Community (ELC) used an Action Research model, that assists educators in using a wide variety of investigative, analytical and evaluative, research methods designed to diagnose problems or weaknesses in their classrooms — whether organizational, academic, or instructional—and help educators develop practical solutions to address them quickly and efficiently.
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond and Johnson · College of the Canyons
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging
Julie A. Panagiotopoulou, Lisa Rosen, and Jenna Strzykala Eds. · LibreTexts
The idea for this text came about when we visited Ofelia García in New York in the fall of 2017 to observe and experience translanguaging live—in a mathematics lesson at a bilingual primary school in Queens—during a research visit. This was a special event for us because we had by then been dealing with the concept for years and were constantly confronted with the standard question of how translanguaging can be put into practice in the context of teacher education, congresses and conferences.
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ECE: Field Experience 1
Autumn Gill · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 04: Applying the Teaching Cycle in Early Childhood Programs · 08: Ethics and Professional Responsibilities in Early Childhood Education
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Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood
Janet Stramel · Fort Hays State University
In the contents: 1.01: The Importance of Early Childhood Mathematics · 1.06: Early Number Concepts and Number Sense · 1.09: Early Fraction Concepts
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Introduction to Children with Exceptionalities
Dana Rethwisch · Palo Verde Community College
In the contents: 01: Overall Concepts of Special Education · 1.1.02: Why We Should Study Exceptionalities in Education · 1.1.05: Historical Perspectives of Special Education
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Understanding Human Development: Prenatal Through Adolescence
Terese Jones; Christina Belli; Esmeralda Julyan · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2025
Understanding Human Development is an introductory textbook for individuals entering early childhood education and related fields. The textbook provides an overview of the developmental lifespan from conception to adolescence using social justice and ecological perspectives. The textbook aims to represent equitable approaches to understanding human development and discusses the diverse factors and interactions that support or hinder development.
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Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood
Janet Stramel · Fort Hays State University · 2021
Welcome to Early Childhood Mathematics! This course satisfies the Early Childhood Unified requirements in the state of Kansas for a teaching license Birth to Grade 3. Most people agree that early childhood includes the period from infancy until eight years of age, characterized by rapid and complex growth in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Math skills must be taught in early childhood. Children should be provided a foundation to succeed in elementary school and beyond. Teachers should focus lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that will help to advance future mathematics. From preschool to the end of elementary school, children are setting the foundation for future life skills. Learning mathematics is “a ‘natural’ and developmentally appropriate activity for young children” (Ginsberg, Lee, and Boyd, 2008). Through their everyday interactions with the world, many children develop informal concepts about space, quantity, size, patterns, and operations. Unfortunately, not all children have the same opportunities to build these informal and foundational concepts of mathematics in their day-to-day lives (Sherman-LeVos, 2010). Young children are naturally curious, and the best time to begin mathematics is at a time while the young child’s brain is rapidly developing. Mathematics in early childhood helps children develop critical thinking and reasoning skills early on and it’s the key to the foundation for success in their formal schooling years.
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Lifespan Development A Psychological Perspective 4e
Martha Lally & Suzanne Valentine-French · College of Lake County
In the contents: 04: Early Childhood · 4.01: Prelude to Early Childhood · 4.08: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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ECD Principles and Practices
Alice Hale · Chabot College
In the contents: 1.01: Chabot's Course of Study in Early Childhood Development · 1.04: NAEYC Standards of Early Childhood Professional Preparation · 02: The Early Childhood Teacher
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CH DEV 034 Observing And Recording Children's Behavior
Ancelma Sanchez · East Los Angeles College
In the contents: 01: Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education (Peterson and Elam) · 1.2.07: Measuring High-Quality in Early Care and Education Classrooms · 2.07: Measuring High-Quality in Early Care and Education Classrooms
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Infant and Toddler Care and Development
Kim Laplante · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 1.03: What does Care and Education of Infants and Toddlers mean · 1.04: Guiding Principles of Infant and Toddler Care and Education · 1.05: Why is Care and Education with Infants and Toddlers Important
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Introduction to Psychology (Lumen - Complete)
LibreTexts
In the contents: 4.04: Early PsychologyStructuralism and Functionalism · 4.17: Merits of an Education in Psychology · 12.08: Introduction to Stages of Development in Childhood
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TED 1200 - Child and Adolescent Development
Mary Y Bonnell · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 04: Early Childhood · 4.01: Introduction to Early Childhood · 4.21: Childhood Stress and Development
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Music in Early Childhood
Janine T. McGrath · Seminole State College
In the contents: 01: Music- Fundamentals and Educational Roots in the U.S. · 02: Approaches to Music Education · 04: Music in Early Childhood Development
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Child Developmental Psychology - Topical Approach
Bakhtawar Bhadha · Pasadena City College
In the contents: 2.05: Operant Learning and School Education (Extra Resources) · 2.08: Constructivism and School Education (Extra Resource) · 8.02: Nutrition in early childhood
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A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia
Susan Rahman, Prateek Sunder, and Dahmitra Jackson · CC ECHO
In the contents: 2.12: Career Technology Education (CTE) · 2.19: Early Childhood Education · 2.28: Health Education