Threads of thinking : young children Learning and the role of early education

Part 1 Young children learning: thinking about young children learning questions about schemes. Part 2 Children's patterns of behaviour and learning: consistency, continuity and progression in young children's learning schemes as consistent patterns of behaviour - studies of three children. Part 3 Schemes and the development of knowledge and understanding: children's developing understanding of mathematical and scientific ideas patterns of literacy stories - nourishing children's thinking. Part 4 Implications for early childhood education: a curriculum for thinking children working with parents the roles and responsibilities of educators.