Nursery World - Learning and development: 'it's time to listen to children more'

Listening to four- and fourteen-year-olds is shedding light on children's early learning experiences, as Dr Jacqui Cousins explains in this extended version of the article in the latest issue of Nursery World

It was good to read the call in Nursery World for early years practitioners to ‘act now to protect childhood’ and to learn that ‘more than 200 experts are calling for action to protect children from the ‘erosion of childhood’ by commercial forces and modern technology’.

As those experts come from such a broad variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines it seems that all agencies are now working together. Twenty-three of them have attempted to set aside party politics and join forces to write the book ‘too much too soon’ which emphasises our constant demands for a play based curriculum in nurseries and schools for children under six.

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