Nursery World - Say your piece

The Mosaic approach for listening to and consulting with young children offers a multi-faceted way of finding out children's views. Researcher Alison Clark shows how it is done Children express themselves in many ways and so to be effective a consultation process must reflect that diversity of expression. The Mosaic approach offers such a framework, using interviews, mapping, tours and photography as just some of the ways to find out what children think.

Children express themselves in many ways and so to be effective a consultation process must reflect that diversity of expression. The Mosaic approach offers such a framework, using interviews, mapping, tours and photography as just some of the ways to find out what children think.

The approach was developed with three-and four-year-olds at Coram Community Campus as part of a project by researchers at the Thomas Coram Research Unit in London.

The approach aims to be inclusive, enabling children of different abilities to contribute to our understanding of their lives. It may be useful:

* in regular audits

* as part of an introduction for a new member of staff

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