My attention was recently grabbed by a tweet that asked – ‘how can we get beyond theories of child development largely written by dead white guys that impose limits on understandings of children’?
That got me thinking, not so much about the gender of the theorists we look to but how much we hark to the past when it comes to theories of early childhood. The pedagogies of pioneers such as Froebel, Steiner and Montessori are still widely practised today, and are undoubtedly relevant, but one wonders how much space this leaves for new theorists to be read, understood and absorbed into practice. With this in mind, we want to ensure the pages of this magazine give space to exciting new experts – like author and early years lecturer Kerry Murphy, who will be writing for us next month on the subject of ‘ableism’.
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