Nursery World - Is every child's voice heard?

Is every child's voice heard? Researching the ways three-year-old children communicate and make meaning at home and in a pre-school playgroup This University of Southampton study explored how three-year-olds use a range of 'voices' during their first year in pre-school, investigating how they make and express meaning 'multimodally' through combinations of talk, body movement, facial expression and gaze. The findings imply that the current focus on talk in the early years may be detracting from the diversity of ways children make and express meaning. Flewitt, R. Early years: an international journal of research and development 25(3): 207-222, Nov 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

Flewitt, R. Early years: an international journal of research and development 25(3): 207-222, Nov 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

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