Bringing Hygge into the Early Years: A Step-by-Step Guide to Bring a Calm and Slow Approach to Your Teaching [Paperback]

Introduction  Re-balance You  How hygge supports you  Managing your time  Becoming present  Core values  The Hygge Environment  A sense of arrival and departure  Lighting  Colour  Setting up your provision  Resourcing on a budget 3. Slow Teaching  Starting with an interest  Provocation or Invitation to Learn?  High quality interactions  Documenting learning  Embracing Nature  Benefits of nature  Friluftsliv: Uncomplicated nature-based play  Find the joy in each season  Bringing nature inside Summary of Book References Index

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.

Bringing Hygge into the Early Years 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.

Drawing from the authors experience of embracing the Scandinavian way of living well, hygge, this book explores how this approach can have a positive impact across your early years setting, from improved mental health and wellbeing, to embracing child-led play and high-quality outdoor provision. With step-by-step guidance on how to embed the approach alongside examples of hygge from early educators around the world, the book is divided into four main parts:

• Re-balance you
• The hygge environmelsÒ