Bringing Hygge into the Early Years by Kimberly Smith
This is a how-to guide for every early educator who wishes to bring more calmness and balance into their day, in turn, leaving them feeling empowered to teach and live well. It explores how the hygge approach can have a positive impact across your early years setting and lead to improved mental health and wellbeing.We desperately need teaching to join the Slow Movement, for both educators’ and children’s wellbeing, happiness and love of learningKimberly’s wise, practical and supportive advice is so timely, providing great coverage of the many elements of calming things down and enjoying them more in educational settings.
‘Slowliness’ is one of my favourite pedagogical words, and I particularly appreciate the Slow Teaching section, changing the narrative that we have grown up with about working well and achieving life satisfaction. Overall, several other key words stand out for me: calm, care, kindness, trust and gratitude, and above all, nature and life outdoors. These are all requisites for living well in the present, and for setting up life-ways for meaningful, fulfilling futures.
Discovering what calmness looks like for you and your children will transform the way you support learning - your children need you to read and use this book."
Professor Jan White, Educational consultant, author and advocate for an early childhood outdoors
A rich and comprehensive guide to the joyful calm of Hygge - each page seems to glow with a simple warmth and the whole book just feels like we are on a walk with Kimberly as she shares her wisdom and a treasure of practical ideas. It’s a walk that’s very much needed, both for ourselves as practitioners and the children we have the privilege to work with. We all need more Hygge in life and Kimberly shows us how just perfectly.
Greg Botrill, Author and childhood advocate
Kimberly Smith has a passion for child-led, nature-based learning and has worked in Early Years Education for the last 17 years as an early years teacher, leader and trainer. She has worked for the local authority in the quality improvement team, guest lectured at Trinity College London and the University of Leeds, UK, and is a regular conference speaker. Kimberly is now the founder of KSEY Consultancy, working with tens of thousands of educators around the world, to improve their wellbeing and quality of teaching.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032039619 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032039612 |
| Title | Bringing Hygge into the Early Years |
| Author | Kimberly Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 198 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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