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In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review
Visual and auditory activities can help calm overstimulated children. By Georgina Durrant
The importance of crawling to physical and mental development, and how to encourage it, is explained by Anne O'Connor and Anna Daly.
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To be effective communicators, young children need attention from adults who are tuned in to what is worthwhile to them, writes Julie Fisher in the first of a four-part series about the role of the...
This week's columnist Robin Balbernie says our priorities for who needs protecting seem to be going topsy-turvy It's looking like it's going to be a shaky year for collective sanity, if recent news is...
What is empathy, how does it develop in the early years, and what can practitioners and parents do to support it? Ruth Thomson explains
In the last of our National Strategies features on the Early Years Foundation Stage, regional adviser Jane Mansfield and senior adviser Jan Lepley reflect on young children's development of empathy.
Professor Paul Anand explains how one of the first economic studies to look at young children's behaviour can give insights into family life