Incorporating Montessori Principles into Your Early Years Environments will allow readers to understand the developing child in their early years setting and how to adapt a Montessori approach to meet their pupils' needs.

Sarah Cummins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Leeds Trinity University, UK.

1. The Montessori Approach
2. Montessori Early Years: The Child, the Adult, and the Prepared Environment
3. Observation
4. The Planes of Development and the Absorbent Mind
5. The Sensitive Periods
6. The prepared Environment
7. Play Is Work
8. Freedom Within Limits
9. Hands-On Learning
10. Independence
11. Respect
12. Language
13. Mathematics
14. Movement and Wellbeing
15. Social and Emotional Development
16. Making It Work in Your Environment