Nursery World - Taking time back

Professor Alison Clark's latest research explores how slowing down our approach to early childhood education can make a huge difference to the everyday lives of young children.

Professor Alison Clark: 'The pandemic threw time into sharper relief, both slowing down and speeding up and brought these questions about time closer to the surface'

The relationship with time is seldom made explicit in the early years but it is there embedded in policies, pedagogies and day to day practice. Time impacts on the structure of the day, the week and the year. It’s also there in wider questions about how children’s past and future impacts on the present.

Thinking about time is closely linked to how childhood and children are viewed and to questions about the purposes of education. The pandemic threw time into sharper relief, both slowing down and speeding up and brought these questions about time closer to the surface.

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