Review

First-hand experience: what matters to children

by Diane Rich, Mary Jane Drummond and Cathy Myer with Annabelle
Dixon (Rich Learning Opportunities £25)

A new edition of this book - a compendium of ideas to help practitioners understand how children think and observe the world and give them good quality learning based on first-hand experiences.

The core of the book is a series of alphabet pages, which include the key topics of what matters to children, big ideas, questions worth asking and books for children and adults. It also has first-hand experiences from educators and ends with an outline of the principles of the authors' work.

Materials have been trialled by 66 educators and in 18 different settings. The foreword is by Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project, who says, 'Read this book. It may save lives.'

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