Nursery World - Home Is Where One Starts From: One Woman's Memoir

by Barbara Tizard (Word Power Books, Edinburgh, 12.99, ISBN: 978-0-9549185-8-3)

Reviewed by Professor Peter Moss, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education University of London

Barbara Tizard is one of our leading postwar child psychologists. Her work on children, adolescents and families, whether on residential nurseries, adoption, young children's conversations and learning, or racialised identities, has been ground-breaking and influential. She worked for many years at the Thomas Coram Research Unit at London University's Institute of Education, where I had the great good fortune to know her, and where she became the Unit's director after the death of her husband Jack Tizard.

She has published widely, including hundreds of academic articles and chapters and six academic books. Now, in her mid-80s, Barbara has written a new book, but this time about her own life and times - 'one woman's memoir', as she puts it.

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