Child Observation

Ioanna Palaiologou is an Associate Professor at the School of Education (Psychology in Education), University of Bristol. She is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society with specialism in child development and learning theories. Her research interests focus on ethics, child development, the role of digital technologies and implications on pedagogy.

This book is especially useful for students who are studying to the Early Childhood Studies in years 1 and 3. It is particularly positive to see that this edition contains recent research that shows a blend of multimodal methods of capturing young children′s observations.

• Chapter 1 – Observation in the policy contextChapter 2 – Observation and pedagogyChapter 3 – Becoming and observerChapter 4 – Unstructured (participant) observationChapter 5 – Structured observationsChapter 6 – Semi-structured observationsChapter 7 - Analysing and documentingChapter 8- Observation documentation in the multi-modal ageChapter 9- Ethical implicationsChapter 10- Observing development and learningChapter 11- Observing for curriculumChapter 12- Observing for research