What are schemas and how can they be used to enhance learning?
How can adults best support schema learning to extend children’s thinking?

This vastly expanded new edition of Thinking Children explores the frequently observed schemas of young children – patterns of behaviour from which understanding and growth is derived – and draws out the nature of this learning.

It is essential that adults working with young children are able to recognise and identify schema learning and understand and support the opportunities for learning they present. Good observational skills are a key element and the book features a Child Observation Schedule.