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An adapted remixed version of content from Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children and Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education, with Canadian and Nova Scotia content added to make this resource relevant for students studying ECE in Nova Scotia.

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By Jennifer Paris and NSCC
Comprehensive and thorough information on all aspects of health, safety and nutrition in early childhood settings.

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NSCC Open Textbook created by Barbie McCuaig and Meghan Hightower Smith for the course Administering Early Childhood Services.

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NSCC Customized Edition created for ECE Applying Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
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Diverse and inclusive practices is an ongoing process of recognizing and valuing the perspective of individual learners in all learning environments. Diverse and inclusive practices are not a set of ways to fix what or who doesn’t fit. It is not a reaction to different types of people. It is instead a conscious effort, making the space we share accessible to and representative of all. We cannot know what everyone will need to feel they belong, but we can share our diversity with pride and make space for conversations and actions to expand further. This open textbook is a guide to understanding how to support meaningful participation, make space for people and create engaging and welcoming learning environments.

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By Natalie Sarrazin / Open SUNY Textbooks
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An introduction to the primary elements of leadership in early care and education settings. Topics covered include leadership skills, ethics, educator development, communication, conflict resolution, motivation, current issues and advocacy.

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Preschool Methods was put together to enhance students knowledge around developmental domains for children 3-5 years of age while highlighting Capable, Confident, and Curious: Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework.
We as early childhood educators are children’s guides while they develop, explore and make sense of the world around them. Through play preschoolers develop life skills that will transfer and scaffold their learning in all aspects of development for the rest of their lives.

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This resource aims to support a deeper understanding of the nuances among human's relationships with nature and the outdoors and how this impacts pedagogy and practice in early childhood. It provides content specific to Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia), with consideration of decolonization and Indigenous informed perspectives of outdoor learning in early childhood environments.

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This resource is a compilation of current literature that captures the importance and benefits of outdoor, nature-based play in early childhood education programming, and highlights the role of risky play in children’s development.

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Reflective practice as a required disposition for early years educators.
This book brings together in one place the history, values , skills, and disposition required to be a reflective practitioner. It is a textbook with elements of a workbook, embedded are opportunities to watch, to think, to write, and to listen allowing the reader to become a purposeful and intentional reflective practitioner.

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By Jennifer Paris; Antoinette Ricardo; Dawn Rymond; and Alexa Johnson.
Originally published under the title Child Growth and Development.

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Created for ECE GDEV 2028

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Written by Jennifer Paris, Antoinette Ricardo, Dawn Rymond.
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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Learn how the core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories of sociology help explain how simple, everyday human actions and interactions can change the world.

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This textbook for professional and technical communication is a compilation of several Open Resource materials. The purpose in its design is to provide a wide variety of materials on subjects in professional and technical communication, and to offer several different perspectives and delivery modes of those materials.